Young Cavalier

1631

Jacques Blanchard French, 1600-1638

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Title Young Cavalier

Artwork Date 1631

Artist Jacques Blanchard

Life Dates 1600-1638

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of John S. Newberry in memory of his mother Edith Stanton Newberry

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 59.15

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Inscriptions 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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Published References

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.