id: 135875 accession number: 1959.38 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.38 updated: 2024-08-08 15:14:49.801000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1653 creation date earliest: 1653 creation date latest: 1653 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602–1674) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed lower center: "A°.1653" translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Pittsburg, Carnegie Insitute, 1951: "French Painting 1100-1900," cat. no. 68, illus.', 'opening_date': '1900-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paris, Orangerie des Tuilleries, 1952: "Philippe de Champaigne," cat. no. 28 (incorrectly gives duke as Grafton as ex collection).', 'opening_date': '1952-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, 1952: "Philippe de Champaigne," cat. no. 28, illus. p. 16.', 'opening_date': '1952-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Duvee Brothers, 1952: "French Art in Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century," cat. no. 7.', 'opening_date': '1952-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA Dec. 1959: "Year in Review," Bull., p. 230.', 'opening_date': '1959-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963: "Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition," cat. no. 64, pl. 64, repr. color on cover.', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Musée de Bordeaux, France 1966: "La Peinture Française dans les Collections Américaines," cat. no. 5, illus.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1967-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (2/15/2108 – 5/27/2018): "The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World"', 'opening_date': '2018-05-27T00:00:00'} --- 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. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “17th Century French Painting Acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art,” April 2, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Dobson, Chris. Beaten Black and Blue: The Myth of the Medieval Knight in Shining Armour. Sant'Albano Stura, Italy: Chris Dobson, 2023. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 43, fig. 40 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.38/1959.38_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.38/1959.38_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.38/1959.38_full.tif