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oil paint (paint)18 × 24 Cm
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Dutch-born painter Corneille de Lyon employed a limited selection of colors to great effect in this small painting. The textured, green background accentuates the subject’s velvety black outfit, lace collar, pale skin, and bristly beard. Corneille specialized in this stylized type of small, finely painted precious portraiture, working primarily for the court and bourgeois elite of 16th-century Lyon, France, where he lived most of his life. The sitter’s exaggerated proportions direct the viewer’s attention to his head and thus to his quiet yet self-assured expression. His confident posture and expensive clothes, along with the exceptional reputation of his portraitist, speak to his high social status.
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| Medium | oil paint (paint) |
| Dimensions | 18 × 24 Cm |
| Tags | portraits: male subjectmenmanportraits: European subjectportrait |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago
Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 13-15, ill.
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sold to E....
sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, probably in 1937 [a letter from Everett D. Graff to Louise Lutz, September 18, 1953, Art Institute Archives, refers to correspondance between Ganz and Silberman dated April 27, 1937]
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given to the Art Institute, 1953.
given to the Art Institute, 1953.
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sold to Everett D....
sold to Everett D. Graff, Winnetka, presumably in 1939 [the letter cited above refers to a receipt from Silberman dated January 24, 1939, “covering the payment for this painting at that time”]
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exhibition
Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art français, 1937, cat. 53.
Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art français, 1937, cat. 53.
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Paul Ganz, Basel, by 1932, until 1937 [lent by him to London 1932 and Paris 1937]
Paul Ganz, Basel, by 1932, until 1937 [lent by him to London 1932 and Paris 1937]
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exhibition
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, cat. 64.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, cat. 64.
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Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon
Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon (Paris, 1996), pp. 230–32, no. 153 (ill.).
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Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Cataglogue of the Picture Collection
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Cataglogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 84.
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