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Portrait of Louise de Halluin, dame de Cipierre
Corneille de Lyon (French, c. 1505-1575)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0dcc35533af5
- Date
- c. 1555
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16324
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this portrait of a maid of honor to Catherine de’ Medici, wife of Henry II of France, the sitter wears a fashionable dress of the mid-1550s. Her jewelry—a gold chain around her narrow waist, a pearl necklace, and a band of pearls on her hood—harmonizes with the rich, yet restrained ornamentation of her dress and embroidered white chemise. Louise de Halluin was still an unmarried attendant of the queen when she sat for this portrait. Corneille de Lyon’s small, keenly observed portraits of courtiers have their own precious, jewel like quality and were well adapted to the itinerant lives of their owners, who accompanied the court as it moved from one palace to another.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, July 1912 [according to Max Friedländer’s authentication dated Berlin, July 3, 1912, on a photograph in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentie., The Hague]. Senateur Colin, Paris, by June 1913 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris, June 1913 [Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, for 30,000 fr., June 20, 1913 [Kleinberger stock card cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913;6 bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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