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Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?)
Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?)

Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?)

Attributed to Cosmé Dumonstier (French, ca. 1550 - 1605)
Date1565
MediumBlack, red, and brown chalk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 10 11/16 × 8 11/16 inches (27.15 × 22.07 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust (by exchange)
Object number77-56/2
Signedb.l.corner: encircled "CD"
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Five Centuries of Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, October 22-November 22, 1953, no. 151, erroneously as by Daniel Dumonstier, as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy.

The Visage of Culture: A Telescopic Survey of Art from the Cave Man to the Present, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Fall 1959, unnumbered, as by Cosmé Dumonstier, as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy.

Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Wildenstein and Co., New York, February 1971, no cat.

Master Drawings, Wildenstein and Co., New York, February-March 1973, no cat.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 14, as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?).

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?).

Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 19-November 28, 2010, no cat., as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?).

Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 17-July 15, 2018, no cat., as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?).

Provenance

Georges Dormeuil (1856-1939), Paris [1];

His posthumous sale, Objets d’art: sculptures-meubles-tapisseries du moyen age et de la renaissance, dessins de l’école française du XVIe siècle…provenant de la collection G.D., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 17, 1949, lot 2, as Buste de femme, le visage de trois-quarts vers la gauche;

With Wildenstein and Co., New York, by October 1953-1977 [2];

Purchased from Wildenstein and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1977.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 1146a

[2] Wildenstein and Co. was listed as the lender in the Five Centuries of Drawings exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 22-November 22, 1953.

Published References

Objets d’art: sculptures-meubles-tapisseries du moyen age et de la renaissance, dessins de l’école française du XVIe siècle…provenant de la collection G.D (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, June 17, 1949), unpaginated, (repro.), as by École des Dumonstier, as Buste de femme, le visage de trois-quarts vers la gauche.

Five Centuries of Drawings, exh. cat. (Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 1953), unpaginated, erroneously as by Daniel Dumonstier, as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy.

The Visage of Culture: A Telescopic Survey of Art from the Cave Man to the Present, exh. cat. (Houston: University of St. Thomas, 1959), unpaginated, (repro.), as by Cosmé Dumonstier, as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy.

Magazine Staff, “Gallery Previews in New York,” Pictures on Exhibit 34, no. 5 (February 1971): 8, 24, (repro.), as Francoise [sic] de Longwy.

Bernard Chaet, The Art of Drawing (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1978), 163-65, (repro.), as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 69-71, (repro.), as Portrait of Françoise de Longwy (?).

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