id: 135875
accession number: 1959.38
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Portrait of King Charles II of England, 1653. Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602–1674). Oil on canvas; framed: 182 x 141 x 15 cm (71 5/8 x 55 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.); unframed: 129.5 x 97.2 cm (51 x 38 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1959.38
title: Portrait of King Charles II of England
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creation date: 1653
creation date earliest: 1653
creation date latest: 1653
current location: 210A Armor Court
creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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culture: France, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602–1674) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 182 x 141 x 15 cm (71 5/8 x 55 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.); Unframed: 129.5 x 97.2 cm (51 x 38 1/4 in.)
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inscription: Inscribed lower center: "A°.1653"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition
opening date: 1963-03-23T05:00:00
Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (organizer) (March 23-April 28, 1963).
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
title: La Peinture Francaise dans les Collections Americaines
opening date: 1966-05-13T04:00:00
La Peinture Francaise dans les Collections Americaines. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (May 13-September 15, 1966).
title: A Pageant of Canada: The European Contribution to the Iconography of Canadian History
opening date: 1967-10-27T04:00:00
A Pageant of Canada: The European Contribution to the Iconography of Canadian History. National Gallery of Canada (organizer) (October 27, 1967-January 19, 1968).
title: Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention
opening date: 1987-04-07T04:00:00
Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987).
title: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
opening date: 2018-02-15T05:00:00
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (organizer) (February 15-May 27, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Pittsburg, Carnegie Insitute, 1951: "French Painting 1100-1900," cat. no. 68, illus.
Paris, Orangerie des Tuilleries, 1952: "Philippe de Champaigne," cat. no. 28 (incorrectly gives duke as Grafton as ex collection).
Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, 1952: "Philippe de Champaigne," cat. no. 28, illus. p. 16.
New York, Duvee Brothers, 1952: "French Art in Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century," cat. no. 7.
CMA Dec. 1959: "Year in Review," Bull., p. 230.
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963: "Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition," cat. no. 64, pl. 64, repr. color on cover.
Musée de Bordeaux, France 1966: "La Peinture Française dans les Collections Américaines," cat. no. 5, illus.
Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, October 1967-January 1968: "The European Contribution to the Iconography of Canadian History," cat. no. 36, pl. XV (color).
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (2/15/2108 – 5/27/2018): "The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World"
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PROVENANCE
Jules Feral (sale: Paris, Hotel Drouot, May 30, 1903, as portrait of James II by Lely); [E. Gimpel and Wildenstein, New York]; Stanley Mortimer, New York (sale: Parke-Bernet, December 2, 1944, no. 85, illus. p. 57); [Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York]. The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Fund, 1959.
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “17th Century French Painting Acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art,” April 2, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0364
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 118
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n142
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 118
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n142
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 171
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n191
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 57-59; Reproduced: p. 58
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Fliegel, Stephen N. "An English Pikeman's Armor from the Severance Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 7 (1994): 252-67.
page number: Reproduced: p. 262; Mentioned: p. 262-63, 267
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161462
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 189
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Fils, Nathan. "Phillipe de Champaigne (French, 1602-1674) King Charles II of England, 1653." In The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World. Andrew Moore, et al, 518-519. New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; Norwich : Norfolk Museums Service ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 518; Reproduced: p. 519
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