About the Artwork
Young Cavalier
1631
Jacques Blanchard
1600-1638
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 × 23 1/2 inches (73.7 × 59.7 cm) Framed: 40 1/2 × 35 5/8 × 3 3/8 inches (102.9 × 90.5 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of John S. Newberry in memory of his mother Edith Stanton Newberry
59.15
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, (barely apparent) upper left: An. 1631 AE [conjoined] tat [or "tatis"] 27
Provenance
before 1937, (Colin Agnew, London, England)
by February 1937-1951, Mrs. John S. Newberry, Sr. (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by at least 1951, by descent to John S. Newberry, Jr. (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Janot, P. and L. Carée, compiled. Exhibition of French Paintings of the 17th Century, Georges de Latour and the Brothers Lenain. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, February 1937, cat. supp. 30 [as Unknown Master, dated 1630; this painting may not have been in the original exhibition held in New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1936].
Valentiner, W.R. "Portraits by J. Blanchard." Bulletin of the DIA 16 (1937): pp. 100-102, (fig. 1).
McCall, G. H., compiled. Masterpieces of Art. Exh. cat., New York World's Fair. New York, 1939, cat. 13 [lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry].
Robinson, F. W. and E. P. Richardson, compiled. Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections (European Paintings from the Two World's Fairs of 1939). Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 1-May 31, 1941, p. 2, cat. 2, [lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry].
Sterling, C. and J. Costello, compiled. French Painting of the Time of Louis XIII and XIV. Exh. cat., Wildenstein Galleries. New York, 1946, cat. 2, [lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry].
French Paintings 17th to 20th Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1947, cat. 1 [lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry--duplicate copy only].
Masterpieces from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1949, cat. 1, [as "Portrait of a Young Cavalier," lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry].
Sterling, Charles. French Painting, 1100–1900. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1951, pl. 50 (ill.) [as in the collection of Mrs. John S. Newberry].
Blunt, A. Art and Architecture in France 1500 to 1700. 1953, p. 213, note 126.
Payne, E. "A French Baroque Portrait." Bulletin of the DIA 39 (1959-60): pp. 84-85, (repr.).
Sterling, C. "Les Peintres Jean et Jacques Blanchard," Art de France, vol. 1 (1961): pp. 76/118, esp. p. 88, cat. 31, (repr.).
"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1961): p. 26, (fig. 90).
Bazin, G. "Jacques Blanchard." In Kindlers Malerei Lexicon, vol. 1. Zurich, 1964, p. 368.
The Institute Collects. Exh. cat. (?), DIA. Detroit, 1964/1965, p. 14.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat. (?), DIA. Detroit, 1965, p. 91.
Sterling, C. "Eustache Le Sueur, peintre de portraits," Walter Friedlaender zum 90. Geburtstag, Berlin, 1965, p. 181, note 2.
Dodge, Parker, and Young, compiled. Age of Louis XIII. Exh. cat., Cummer Gallery of Art and Museum of Fine Arts. Jacksonville and St. Petersburg, 1969/1970, cat. 12, (repr.).
Rosenberg, P. "Quelques nouveaux Blanchard." In Etudes d'art français offertes à Charles Sterling. Paris, 1975, pp. 217-225, esp. p. 22(?), no. 31.
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, The Art Institute of Chicago. New York, Paris, Chicago, 1982, p. 189, cat. 3, (repr.).
Wright, C. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston, 1985, p. 144 [as attr. to J. Blanchard].
Thuillier, J. Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Rennes, 1998, p. 164, no. 45, (color repr.) p. 165.
Dossier de l'art, no. 455 (March 1998): p. 72, (color ill.) p. 73.
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Jacques Blanchard, Young Cavalier, 1631, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry in memory of his mother Edith Stanton Newberry, 59.15.
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