Portrait of a Noblewoman (Madame de Pellegars?)

1590/1595

François Quesnel

Artist, French, 1543 - 1619

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and red chalks with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29 x 23.2 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.17


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri du Bouchet de Bournonville, Paris; his brother Jean-Jacques du Bouchet de Villeflix; Charles Wickert [died 1918], Paris (his sale, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 3 May 1909, no. 43); Edward M. Hodgkins, Paris; (Duveen Brothers, New York, sold 1941); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, 1941); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 3 June 1960; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • French Drawings and Watercolors, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1941, no. 3.

1971

  • Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 55.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 55.

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. X, reprod. p. xxv (color).

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 87.

1989

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 48 (cat. by Hilliard Goldfarb).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 60.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 36-37, 275, no. 9.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1875

  • Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les Graveurs de Portraits en France. Paris, 1875-77: 1: no. 982.

1909

  • Delteil, Loys. Catalogue des Crayons Français du CVIe Siècle composnat la collection de M. Ch(arles) W(ickert). Exh. cat. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris , 1909: 4, 40, no. 43.

1924

  • Dimier, Louis. Histoire de la Peinture de Portrait en France au XVIe Siècle. Paris, 1924: 2: no. 1006.

  • Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. Les Clouet et leurs émules. Paris, 1924: II: 99 and III: 152-3 (unattributed).

1970

  • Adhémar, Jean. Les Clouet & la Cour des Rois de France. Paris, 1970: 7, 11.

1973

  • Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the 15th to the 18th Century. Exh. cat. William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art. New York, 1973, under "Additions and Corrections to Woodner Collection I," n.p., no. 55.

1977

  • de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Ian Woodner, amateur américain de réputation mondiale, commente quelques oeuvres majeures de sa collection." Connaissance des Arts CCCX (1977): 106.

1983

  • Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 60.

2010

  • Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66, 67, fig. 87.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: ChMc; by later hand, lower right in graphite: WCI 55 (Woodner inv. no.)

Watermarks

grapes (possible twin mold of Briquet 13196)

Wikidata ID

Q64569768


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