About the Artwork
Portrait of an Unknown Noblewoman
ca. between 1585 and 1600
François Quesnel
1543-1619
French
Unknown
Black and red chalk with pink and gray washes and touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 8 3/4 inches (29.7 × 22.2 cm) Framed: 20 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (52.7 × 44.5 × 3.5 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
53.74
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Markings
Stamp, in black, lower right corner Georges Dormeuil (Lugt suppl. 1146a)
Provenance
1909, Wickert collection (Paris, France). Marius Pauline (Paris, France). George Dormeuil (Paris, France). [not in Dormeuil sale, Paris, June 17, 1949] 1953, H. M. Calmann (London, England). 1953-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 186-187, no. 84.
Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, pp. 205-206, cat. 124 (ill.).
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François Quesnel, Portrait of an Unknown Noblewoman, ca. between 1585 and 1600, black and red chalk with pink and gray washes and touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 53.74.
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