DrawingsFrench16th century

Portrait of Claude Gouffier de Boisy

c. 1555

Artists

François ClouetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and red chalk with touches of white chalk on discolored cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

31.8 x 22.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)

Provenance

Catherine de Medici; Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany; Ignatius Hugford; Marquis de Biron; Alphonse Kann, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949, inv. no. 1949.5

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