Monseigneur Charles de Saint-Albin, Archbishop of Cambrai

1740

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Artist, French, 1659 - 1743

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on brown laid paper (originally blue), laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Diane Allen Nixon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 35.7 x 29.6 cm (14 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.27.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Libert et Castor, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 June, 2001, no. 11). (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Old Master Drawings. C.G. Boerner, New York, 2002, no. 20 (Neue Lagerliste 116).

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005 (no cat.).

2007

  • Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 (not in cat.).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 110-111, 281, no. 46 (color).

Bibliography

2004

  • Perreau, Stéphan. Hyachinthe Rigaud, 1659-1743, Le peintre des rois. Montpellier, 2004: 218-219.

Inscriptions

in later hand, across bottom of mount in ink: Mr. de St. Albain archeveque de Cambray, dessiné par Mr. Rigaud qui en a aussi peint le Tableau / C'Est sur ce dessein qu'il a êté Gravé par Mr. Drévet

Wikidata ID

Q64574774

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