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Lot Essay
Pierre-Jean Mariette noted in his Abecedario that '[Dumonstier] avait coutume de mettre sur ses portraits l'année et le jour qu'il les avait faits. Il serait à souhaiter qu'il eût écrit de même le nom des personnes [...]', P. de Chennevières and A. de Montaiglon, Abecedario de Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes, Paris, 1854, II, pp. 130-1.
This is one of the earliest dated drawings by Dumonstier. Large groups of portraits by Dumonstier are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (J. Adhémar, 'Les dessins de Daniel Dumonstier au Cabinet des Estampes', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1970, LXXV, pp. 129-150) and in the Louvre (J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles, Ecole Franaise, Paris, 1949, V, nos. 3799-3827). The earliest portrait from these groups is that of M. Brulart, Marquis de Sillery, dated 1605, which was also in Lagoy's collection.
A comparable drawing datable to the same period as the present sheet is in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, E. Brugerolles, The Renaissance in France, exhib. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1995, no. 90. Later drawings, dating from 1629 to 1637, are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Dessins franais du XVIIIe siècle dans les collections publiques franaises, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993, nos. 6-7, fig. 7a. Another portrait is in the Horvitz Collection, E. Brugerolles in Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exhib. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1998, no. 3.
This is one of the earliest dated drawings by Dumonstier. Large groups of portraits by Dumonstier are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (J. Adhémar, 'Les dessins de Daniel Dumonstier au Cabinet des Estampes', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1970, LXXV, pp. 129-150) and in the Louvre (J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles, Ecole Franaise, Paris, 1949, V, nos. 3799-3827). The earliest portrait from these groups is that of M. Brulart, Marquis de Sillery, dated 1605, which was also in Lagoy's collection.
A comparable drawing datable to the same period as the present sheet is in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, E. Brugerolles, The Renaissance in France, exhib. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1995, no. 90. Later drawings, dating from 1629 to 1637, are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Dessins franais du XVIIIe siècle dans les collections publiques franaises, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993, nos. 6-7, fig. 7a. Another portrait is in the Horvitz Collection, E. Brugerolles in Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exhib. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1998, no. 3.