About the Artwork
Cavalry
17th century
Jacques Courtois
1621-1676
French
Unknown
Oil on copper
Unframed: 16 1/8 × 22 3/8 inches (41 × 56.8 cm) Framed: 21 3/4 × 28 1/4 × 3 3/4 inches (55.2 × 71.8 × 9.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.68
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
collection of the Dukes of Hamilton (Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshite, Scotland)
collection of James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 149 [as by Jacques Courtois, called Borgognone, “A Battle Scene”].
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 40, no. 54.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 83, no. 84.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 32, no. 491.
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat, Grand Palais, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. Paris, 1982, p. 350, no. 11, (repr.) [as Battle Scene--not in the exhibition].
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Jacques Courtois, Cavalry, 17th century, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.68.
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