A Lady in Her Bath - Literature

François Clouet (artist)
French, before 1520 - 1572
A Lady in Her Bath, c. 1571
oil on oak
overall: 92.3 x 81.2 cm (36 5/16 x 31 15/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.13
On View

From the Tour: The Netherlands and France in the 1500s
Object 8 of 8

1903	Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond. London:6, no 14.
1904	Dimier, Louis. Le Portrait du XVIe siècle aux primitifs français. Notes et corrections au catalogue officiel sur cette partie de l'exposition d'Avril - Juillet 1904. Paris, 1904:23-25
1904	Durand-Gréville, E. "The Sixteenth Century at the Exhibition of French Primitives." The Burlington Magazine 6 (1904):155, repro. 148.
1905	Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). Paris, 1922: 5:no. 2 repro.
1915	Brockwell, Maurice W. A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt, Visconde de Monserrate. 3 vols. London, 1915:3:44-45, no. 426, repro.
1920	Reinach, Salomon. "Diane de Poitiers et Gabrielle d'Estrées." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5e pér, no 21 (1920):164-170, repro. 163
1924	Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. Les Clouet et leurs émules. Paris, 1924:1, 75, repro. fig. 20
1926	Hendy, Philip. "French Painting in the XVIe Century. The Clouets and the Birth of Decorative Painting." Apollo 3 (1926):50, repro. 51
1929	Adler, Irene. "Die Clouet. Versuch einer Stilkritik." Jahrbuch des kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wein. N.F.3 (1929): 214, 227, 230, 232-234,246, no. 13, repro.
1929	Fourreau, Armand. Les Clouet. Paris, 1929:57, repro. 60
1931	Jamot, Paul. "French Painting - I." The Burlington Magazine 59 (1931):repro. facing 257
1931	Babelon, Jean. "Sixteenth Century Painting in France." Formes 20 (1931):171, repro. 170
1931	Marle, Raimond von. Iconographie de l'art profane au Moyen-Age et à la Renaissance. The Hague, 1931:509
1932	Cox, Trenchard. "A First View of the French Exhibition." The Connoisseur 89, no. 365 (1932):5-6, repro. 11
1932	Brockwell, Maurice W. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart. London, 1932:7, no. 426, repro. pl. 1.
1932	Chamot, M. "The Exhibition of French Art." Apollo 15 (1932):3,5
1932	Cox, Trenchard. "A Last View of the French Exhibition." The Connoisseur 89, no. 367 (1932):150
1932	Dézarrois, André. "Chroniques. L'art français à Londres." La Revue de l'art Ancien et Moderne 61 (1932):83-84, repro.
1932	Jamot, Paul. "French Painting - II." The Burlington Magazine 60 (1932):3
1933	Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. Royal Academy of Arts, London, January - March 1932. Oxford and London, 1933:15-16, no. 49., pl. 21
1935	Ver Heyden de Lancey. "A Picture of Gabrielle d'Estrées attributed to Françios Pourbus le Jeune." The Connoisseur 96, no. 409 (1935):138, repro. 139
1937	Taylor, Francis Henry. "La Belle Diane. Two Portraits of the French Renaissance." Worcester Art Museum Annual 3 (1937-1938):49
1937	Dimier, Louis. "L'Art du portrait en France au XVIe s.: François Clouet." Le Dessin 9 (March 1937):470
1939	Réau, Louis. French Painting in the XIVth, XVth, and XVIth Centuries. London, Paris, and New York, 1939:33, repro. p. 83
1945	Adhémar, Jean. "French Sixteenth Century Genre Paintings." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 8 (1945):193
1945	"The Cook Collection." The Studio 130 (1945):25, repro.
1948	Brion, Marcel. Lumière de la Renaissance. Paris, 1948:154
1949	Wilenski, Reginald H. French Painting. Boston, 1949:31-32
1950	"Diane de Poitiers au Bain." Aesulape (October, 1950):192, repro
1950	Colombier, Pierre du. L'Art Renaissance en France. Paris, 1950:90, 96, fig. 115
1950	Dimier, Louis. "Clouet, François." In Thieme-Becker 37 vols. 1907-1950. Leipzig, 1912: 7:117-118.
1951	Hevesy, André de. "L'Histoire véridique de la Jaconde." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6e pér., 40 (1952):18-19, repro. 17
1951	Polaillon-kerven, Gisèle. "Beautés de légend et légendes de beauté." Amour de l'Art 49-51 (1951):29, repro. 31
1951	Sabin, André. La Peinture française du XVIe siècle. Paris, 1951:2
1954	Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700. London and Baltimore, 1954: 69-70, pl. 48.
1955	Murray, Linda. "The French Portrait." History Today 5 (1955):585, repro.
1955	Sterling, Charles. A Catalogue of French Paintings XV-XVIII Centuries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cambridge (MA), 1955:53-54
1955	Le Triomphe du maniérisme européen de Michel-Ange au Greco. Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1955:57, no. 34, 67, no. 52
1956	Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 52-55, no. 17, repro.
1957	Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 33, 38, 43, 50, 127, frontispiece, pl. 127
1959	Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 335, repro.
1959	Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 12, color repro.
1959	Huebner, Fr. M. "Ein wertvoller Fund." Die Weltkunst 29 (1959):5
1960	Béguin, Sylvie. L'Ecole de Fontainebleau. Le Maniérisme a la cour de France. Paris, 1960:94-95, 106, repro. 95
1960	The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 9, color repro. 12.
1961	Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 114-115, 209, fig. 105, color fig. 106-107
1961	Babelon, Jean. La Civilisation française de la Renaissance. Tournai, 1961:193
1961	Blumer, M.-L. "Clouet (François, dit Janet)." Dictionnaire de Biographie française. Paris, 1961:9:col. 38
1961	Goldblatt, Maurice H. Deux grandes maîtres français: le maître de Moulins identifié; Jean Perréal, 40 portraits identifiés. Paris, 1961:40
1962	Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 100, color repro.
1962	Neugass, Fritz. "Die Auflösung der Sammlung Kress." Die Weltkunst 32 (1962): 3-4, repro.
1963	Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 200, repro.
1963	Châtelet, Albert, and Jacques Thuillier. French Painting from Fouquet to Poussin. Geneva, 1963: 111-112, 126,128-130, repro.
1964	Mirimonde, A.P. de. review of La Peinture française de Fouquet à Poussin by Albert Châtelet and Jacques Thuillier in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6e pér, no. 63 (1964):370-371
1964	Guilly, R. "Clouet, François." In Kindlers Malerei Lexikonedited by Germain Bazin, et al. 6 vols. Zürich, 1964-1971. Zürich, 1964, 1:759, repro. 758.
1965	Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 29
1965	Le XVIe siècle européen. Peintures et dessins dans les collections publiques françaises. Exh. cat. Petit Palais, Paris, 1965: 59,61, no.74, 277, no. 338
1966	Trinquet, Roger. "L'Allégorie politique au XVIe siècle: la Dame au Bain de François Clouet (Washington)." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1966): 99-119, repro.
1966	Chastel, André. "Diane de Poitiers: 'L'Eros de la beauté froide.'" Friendship's Garland. Essays Presented to Mario Praz on his Seventieth Birthday. Rome, 1966:I:101, figure 1 (reprinted in Fables, Formes, Figures, Paris, 1978:1:269, repro. 270)
1966	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, ed. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:2882-283, color repro.
1967	Sterling, Charles. "Un Portrait inconnue par Jean Clouet." Studies in Renaissance & Baroque Art presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday. London and New York, 1967:88-89, fig. 3.
1968	Cuttler, Charles D. Northern Painting from Pucelle to Breughel. Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York, 1968:466, repro.
1968	European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 22, no. 1370, repro.
1970	Muehsam, Gerd. French Painters and Paintings from the Fourteenth Century to Post-Impressionism. New York, 1970:40, 43-45, repro.
1970	Châtelet, Albert, François-Georges Pariset and Raoul de Broglio. Chantilly. Musée Condé. Peintures de l'Ecole française. Paris, 1970:under no. 75
1970	Sterling, Charles. "A Male Portrait by Jean Clouet." Museum Monographs, Papers on Objects in the Collection of City Art Museum of Saint Louis. 1970:2:61, fig. 7
1972	Johnson, W. McAllister. "L'Ecole de Fontainebleau: The Paintings." La Chronique des Arts (Supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts) 6e pér, no. 81 (January 1972):42
1972	Ragghianti, Carlo L. "Pertineuze francesi nel Cinquecento." Critica d'Arte 19 (1972):46
1972	Laclotte, Michel. "Pour un Louvre ideal." Jardin des Arts 212-213 (1972):34, repro.
1972	L'Ecole de Fontainebleau, Exh. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, 1972:54, no. 54, 214, no 242, 215, no. 243, 220, no. 246.
1973	Fontainebleau. Art in France 1528-1610. Exh. cat. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, 1973:2:39
1974	European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum. Worcester (MA), 1974:242
1975	European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 72, repro.
1976	Risatti, Howard. "A French Court Portrait." Bulletin of the Krannert Art Museum 2 (1976):18,20, fig. 8
1977	Pope-Hennessy, John. "Completing the Account." Review of Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London 1977. Times Literary Supplement no. 3927 (17 June 1977).
1977	Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 253-257, figs. 241-243, as Lady Bathing with Children and Attendants.
1978	Brown, David Alan, and Konrad Oberhuber. "Monna Vanna and Fornarina: Leonardo and Raphael in Rome." In Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore. 2 vols. Florence, 1978: I:37.
1978	Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Les deux Venus au bain. Un nouvelle analyse sur la 'Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de des soeurs' du Louvre." Art History (Tohuku University, Japan) 1 (1978):23, fig. 5
1978	Branshaw, Lilian and Dorothy M. Jones. "Luxury, Love, and Charity: Four Paintings from the School of Fontainebleau." Australian Journal of Art 3 (1978):39-40, 43-44, 47-49, 53-57, repro. 45
1979	Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 60, pl. 42, color repro.
1980	Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700. 4th ed. Harmondsworth, 1980:119, fig. 90
1984	Ingenhoff-Danhäuser, Monika. Maria Magdalena. Heilige und Sünderin in der italienischen Renaissance. Tübingen, 1984: 59, fig 56.
1984	Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 224, no. 280, color repro.
1985	Snyder, James. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350-1575. New York, 1985: 518, fig. 588.
1985	European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 92, repro.
1987	Lawner, Lynne. Lives of the Courtesans. Portraits of the Renaissance. New York, 1987: 159, repro. 160.
1987	Delay, Florence. Les Dames de Fontainebleau. Milan, 1987:53, 57, 60, repro. 39
1990	Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits. European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. New Haven and London, 1990:6-7, 109, repro.
1991	Plogsterth, Ann. "The Institution of the Royal Mistress and the Iconography of Nude Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century France." Ph. D. Diss., Columbia Univerity, 1991:2-3, 34, 150-151, 157-158, 172-188, 221, 263-267, fig. 19
1992	Sixteenth Century Renaissance Painting. Vol. 2. A Reading and Viewing of Famous Paintings. Tokyo, 1992:123-125, repro. (in Japanese).
1992	National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 160, repro.
1992	Châtelet, Albert. La peinture française, XVe et XVIe siècles. Geneva, 1992:96, 110-113, repro.
1997	Jollet, Etienne. Jean & François Clouet. Paris, 1997:272, repro.
2004	Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 116-117, no. 89, color repro.
2004	Danziger, Elon. "The Cook Collection--Its Founder and Its Inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 448.
2005	The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 99-100, fig. 10b (not in the exhibition).
2009	Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 23, 115-122, color repro.

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