A Knight of the Golden Fleece, c. 1495

Not on View

Medium

oil on European walnut

Dimensions

overall: 68 x 53.7 cm (26 3/4 x 21 1/8 in.)

framed: 74.9 x 61.6 x 6 cm (29 1/2 x 24 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur Sachs

Accession Number

1964.16.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Perréal (painter) French, active 1485 - 1530

Image Use

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Provenance

Possibly (Paul Cassirer, Berlin), 1920s. Arthur Sachs [1880-1975], New York, Paris, and Cannes, by 1927/1928;[1] gift 1964 to NGA.

[1] A photograph in the William Suhr archives, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, is annotated on the back with a note indicating that Suhr restored the painting when it belonged to Cassirer in the 1920s (Burton B. Fredericksen, letter to John Oliver Hand, 10 February 1997). It is possible that Sachs purchased the painting from Cassirer, although Walter Feilchenfeldt has not found the painting in the Cassirer records (e-mail to Anne Halpern, 21 August 2008). Sachs is listed as the owner in the catalogue for a 1928 exhibition in Detroit. Although Sachs lent a portrait by a "French Primitive" to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1927, there is nothing to connect it with the National Gallery's painting (Abigail G. Smith, acting archivist, Harvard University Art Museums, letter to John Oliver Hand, 9 June 1993). The letters and e-mail are in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Sachs, Arthur

Bibliography

1930: "The Fogg Art Museum." Report of the President of Harvard University, 1930-1931. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930: 20.

1937: Dupont, Jacques. Les primitifs français (1300-1500). Paris, 1937: 62, repro.

1938: Sterling, Charles. La peinture française: les primitifs. Paris, 1938: 140, fig. 187.

1942: Sterling, Charles. Les peintres du Moyen Âge: la peinture française. Paris, 1942: 67; Répertoire, 55, no. 147, pl. 145.

1946: Bouchage, Luc. "Louvre to California. Today's Collectors: Arthur Sachs," Art News, 45 (October 1946): 75, 77, repro.

1949: Ring, Grete. A Century of French Painting 1400-1500. London, 1949: 242, no. 329.

1961: Goldblatt, Maurice H. Deux grands maîtres français, le maître de Moulins identifés, Jean Perréal, 40 portraits identifiés. Paris, 1961: 68, pl. 8.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 53, as French 15th Century.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 45, repro., as French 15th Century.

1974: The Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Catalogue of Paintings: Part One. Cleveland, 1974: 17, no. 6 (entry by Wolfgang Stechow).

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 134, repro., as French 15th Century.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 24, repro., as French 15th Century.

1993: Avril, François, and Nicole Reynaud. Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520. Paris, 1993: 368.

1996: Reynaud, Nicole. "Deux portraits inconnus par Jean Perréal au Louvre." Revue du Louvres et des Musées de France 46, no. 4 (October 1996): 42, 43, repro.

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. 45, 215-218, color repro., as French 15th Century.