Provenance

Gilbert Paignon Dijonval

French, 1708 - 1792

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Shown from the chest up, a light-skinned man with a wrinkled face and a silvery gray beard and hair gazes into the distance in this oval portrait painting. His chest is angled to our right but he turns his head to look off over his other shoulder, to our left. His slate-blue eyes are a little sunken and lined with wrinkles. Shading marks the hollows of the temple and cheek we can see. His thin lips are closed and framed by his curly mustache and beard. A dark, mahogany-brown cap is pushed back on his head, and his brown jacket has gold-colored buttons down the front. The collar of a cream-colored shirt shows through at the neckline. The background is dark olive green. The artist signed the work near the man’s shoulder, to our right: “GDOV.”
Gerrit Dou, Bust of a Bearded Man, c. 1642/1645, oil on panel, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.32

Bust of a Bearded Man

Gerrit Dou · c. 1642/1645 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2014.136.32

François Boucher, Sancho Fleeing from the Servants of the Duke, 1735/1736, black chalk and gray wash heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper, Gift of Arthur L. Liebman, 1992.87.9

Sancho Fleeing from the Servants of the Duke

François Boucher · 1735/1736 · black chalk and gray wash heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  1992.87.9

Master I.K., Four Evangelists in a Scriptorium, 1539, pen and brown ink with brown wash over red chalk on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1992.41.1

Four Evangelists in a Scriptorium

Master I.K. · 1539 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1992.41.1

Charles Eisen, The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop, c. 1755, pen and gray ink with gray wash, watercolor, white gouache, and touches of brown ink on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.15.1

The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop

Charles Eisen · c. 1755 · pen and gray ink with gray wash, watercolor, white gouache, and touches of brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.15.1

Ventura Salimbeni, The Birth of the Virgin, 1605/1610, pen and brown and red ink with brown and sanguine wash over red chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared in red chalk on laid paper washed ochre, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.155

The Birth of the Virgin

Ventura Salimbeni · 1605/1610 · pen and brown and red ink with brown and sanguine wash over red chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared in red chalk on laid paper washed ochre ·  Accession ID  2007.111.155