Marin Cureau de La Chambre

c. 1656

Robert Nanteuil

Associated Names
Robert Nanteuil

Artist, French, 1623 - 1678

The image is an illustration of a person depicted from the waist up. The person is positioned facing slightly to the side, with their head turned towards the viewer. They have curly, shoulder-length hair. Their facial features include a prominent nose and a mustache. The individual is wearing a hat and an elaborate outfit with a high, wide collar and pleated and buttoned clothing. There is no visible jewelry or objects being held. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with scraping on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 13.9 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9130

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA, 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1935

  • Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 44, repro.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 86 and 88-89, repro.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1955

  • The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

1959

  • French Drawings from American Collections Clouet to Matisse. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, no. 27.

1972

  • French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th centuries in North American Collections. Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, no. 95 (Pierre Rosenberg).

1985

  • Robert Nanteuil: Portrait Engraver to the Sun King. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1985, no. 19.

1989

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 104 (Hilliard Goldfarb).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 68-69, 278, no. 25 (color).

Bibliography

1924

  • Bouvy, Eugene. Nanteuil. Paris, 1924: 170.

1957

  • Fromrich, Yane. "Robert Nanteuil Dessinateur et Pastelliste." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 49 (1957): 212, 213, fig. 4.

1982

  • Fine, Ruth. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982: 125, under no.41, fig.41a.

1992

  • Eaves, Morris. The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992: 218, fig. 4.28.

Wikidata ID

Q64629025

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