DrawingsFrench16th century

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

c. 1545

Artists

François ClouetArtist

Classification

Drawings

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

Culture

French

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

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

Provenance

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

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