1979.42: Charles Halluin, Seigneur de Pienne, Later First Duc de Halluin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.42

People

François Clouet, French (1510 - 1572)

Title

Charles Halluin, Seigneur de Pienne, Later First Duc de Halluin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1545

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295491

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red chalk with traces of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, upper right edge made up

Dimensions

29.5 x 21.7 cm (11 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: mount, upper center, black ink: Monsr. ["sr." in superscript] de Pienne Laisne
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France, Paris; her granddaughter, Christine of Lorraine, Grand-Duchess of Tuscany, Florence, by descent; Medici Family, Florence, by descent; Ignazio Enrico Hugford, Florence; William Ponsonby or Frederick Ponsonby, second and third Earls of Bessborough, Bishopscourt, County Kildare, Ireland and Bessborough (now, Parkstead) House, London; E. M. Hodgkins, London and Paris; Charles Wickert, Paris; George Jay Gould, Manhattan and Furlough Lodge, Dry Brook, New York; Kingdon Gould, Manhattan and Furlough Lodge, Dry Brook, New York, by descent; Annunziata Camilla Lucci Gould, Manhattan and Furlough Lodge, Dry Brook, New York, by descent; John Castano, Boston and Duveen Brothers, New York; Frances L. Hofer, Boston, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.42

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.42

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, “New Clouets Come to Light in Cambridge", ARTnews, ARTnews Associates (New York, 1946), vol. 45, no. 1, March, pp. 24-25, 69, pp. 69-70
• Agnes Mongan, “A Group of Newly Discovered Sixteenth-Century French Portrait Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, 1947), vol. 1, no. 2, Spring, pp. 155-75, pp. 161-64, 166, 168
• Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 58
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 3, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 3, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 3, pp. 28-29
• Philip Hofer, Jacob Bean, and Gabor F. Peterdi, Approaches to Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1963), pp. 14-15
• Prince Raoul-Louis-Marie-Joseph de Broglie, “Les Clouet de Chantilly: catalogue illustré", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1971), ser. 6, vol. 77, May-June, pp. 257-336, p. 266
• "Master Drawings and Watercolors Opens Fall Season at Fogg", Harvard University Art Museums Newsletter, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, pp. 1, 6, p. 1
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 23, pp. 33-34, 99
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, cat. no. 30, pp. 16, 28
• Alexandra Zvereva, Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis: chefs-d'œuvre graphiques du Musée Condé, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2002), pp. 17-18
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 1, repr., p. 18

Exhibition History

• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998

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