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François Quesnel

Portrait of a Noblewoman (Madame de Pellegars?), 1590/1595

Not on View

Medium

black and red chalks with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 29 x 23.2 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.17

Artists / Makers

François Quesnel (artist) French, 1543 - 1619

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: ChMc; by later hand, lower right in graphite: WCI 55 (Woodner inv. no.)

Provenance

Henri du Bouchet de Bournonville, Paris; his brother Jean-Jacques du Bouchet de Villeflix; Charles Wickert [died 1918], Paris (his sale, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 3 May 1909, no. 43); Edward M. Hodgkins, Paris; (Duveen Brothers, New York, sold 1941); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, 1941); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 3 June 1960; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hodgkins, Edward M.
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1941: French Drawings and Watercolors, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1941, no. 3.

1971: Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 55.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 55.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 87.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. X, reprod. p. xxv (color).

1989: From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 48 (cat. by Hilliard Goldfarb).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 60.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 36-37, 275, no. 9.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1875: Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les Graveurs de Portraits en France. Paris, 1875-77: 1: no. 982.

1909: Delteil, Loys. Catalogue des Crayons Français du CVIe Siècle composnat la collection de M. Ch(arles) W(ickert). Exh. cat. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris , 1909: 4, 40, no. 43.

1924: Dimier, Louis. Histoire de la Peinture de Portrait en France au XVIe Siècle. Paris, 1924: 2: no. 1006.

1924: Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. Les Clouet et leurs émules. Paris, 1924: II: 99 and III: 152-3 (unattributed).

1970: Adhémar, Jean. Les Clouet & la Cour des Rois de France. Paris, 1970: 7, 11.

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the 15th to the 18th Century. Exh. cat. William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art. New York, 1973, under "Additions and Corrections to Woodner Collection I," n.p., no. 55.

1977: de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Ian Woodner, amateur américain de réputation mondiale, commente quelques oeuvres majeures de sa collection." Connaissance des Arts CCCX (1977): 106.

1983: Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 60.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66, 67, fig. 87.