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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.671
People
Jean de Saint-Igny, French (Rouen c. 1595-1600 - 1647 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jacques Bellange, French (active 1595 - 1616 in Nancy)
Title
Bust of a Young Man with Plumed Hat; verso: Man Wearing a Cap
Other Titles
Former Title: Study of a Young Courtier
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296716

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to decorated blue laid paper; verso: red chalk offset
Dimensions
18 x 14.2 cm (7 1/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 19
  • watermark: Fleur-de-lys

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
W. R. Jeudwine, London, sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 1960, inv. no. 1960.671

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.671
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • W. R. Jeudwine, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., W. R. Jeudwine Gallery (London, 1960), cat. no. 2, p. 1
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Il seicento francese, ed. Walter Vitzthum, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Milan, 1971), p. 81 (as Jacques-Charles Bellange)
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 5, pp. 18, 132-33
  • Per Bjurström, French Drawings: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, 1976), p. 120
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 59, n.p.
  • Christopher Comer, "Studies in Lorraine Art, ca. 1580-ca. 1625" (1980), Princeton University, cat. no. 74, pp. 252-53
  • Pierre Rosenberg and François Bergot, French Master Drawings from the Rouen Museum from Caron to Delacroix, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1981)
  • Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 37, 52
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), p. 154 (as Jean de Saint-Igny)
  • Sue Welsh Reed, French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1998), pp. 110-11
  • Jacques Thuillier, Jacques Bellange, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Rennes, 2001), p. 326
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet, ed., Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and The Frick Collection (Paris and New York, 2001-2002), p. 83
  • 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. 7, repr.; verso repr. p. 39

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, W.R. Jeudwine Gallery, London, 11/07/1960 - 11/19/1960
  • French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Verification Level

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