id: 143206 accession number: 1967.17 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.17 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:18.994000 Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois, 1723. Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743). Oil on canvas; framed: 180.5 x 148 x 15 cm (71 1/16 x 58 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.); unframed: 146.7 x 113.7 cm (57 3/4 x 44 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1967.17 title: Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1723 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1723 current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 180.5 x 148 x 15 cm (71 1/16 x 58 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.); Unframed: 146.7 x 113.7 cm (57 3/4 x 44 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed on base of clock: fait par Hyacinthus Rigaud, 1723 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: The Age of Louis XV: French Painting, 1710 - 1774 opening date: 1975-10-26T04:00:00 The Age of Louis XV: French Painting, 1710 - 1774. The Toledo Museum of Art (organizer) (October 26-December 7, 1975); The Art Institute of Chicago (January 10-February 22, 1976); National Gallery of Canada (March 21-May 2, 1976). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Opulent Fashion in the Church opening date: 2016-09-19T04:00:00 Opulent Fashion in the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19, 2016-October 2, 2017). title: Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) or the Sun Portrait opening date: 2021-05-19T04:00:00 Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) or the Sun Portrait. Musée National de Château de Versailles, 78 008 Versailles cedex, France (organizer) (May 19-June 13, 2021) http://en.chateauversailles.fr/news/exhibitions/hyacinthe-rigaud-sun-portrait. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "L'Exposition de la Jeunesse. Place Dauphne, Paris, France (1723)", 'opening_date': None} * {'description': "Exposition d'oeuvres de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle. Berlin, Germany (1910)", 'opening_date': '1910-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Painter as Historian. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (1962)', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1967- footnotes: citations: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1956-1957 footnotes: citations: (Hôtel Drouot, sale, Dec. 10, 1956, lot Q, sold to Wildenstein & Co.)1 date: 1956 footnotes: *
1In addition to the Rigaud painting, Wildenstein also purchased Aved's Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna (CMA 1964.89) at this sale.  Prior to this auction, the Rigaud, like the Aved, may have been in the Delaney collection.  The Aved painting, as well as Tiepolo painting currently in the Samuel Kress Collection at the National Gallery (1952.5.78), were both owned by Edouard Kann and then by “Mme. Delaney,” who may or may not have been the consignor to the 1956 Drouot sale.  Because both the Rigaud and Aved were owned by Edouard Kann and were later sold in the 1956 sale, it is likely that the intervening owner(s) were also the same.  The exact path that the Rigaud and Aved took after Kann is unknown; the Tiepolo was sold at the Galerie Charpentier in 1933, but neither the Rigaud nor the Aved appears in that sale.
citations: Edouard Kann, Berlin1 date: 1907 footnotes: *
1 The Duveen Brothers stock book indicates, through a "K" in the "remarks" column, that on August 4, 1907, Edouard Kann, Rodolphe's son, purchased the Rigaud and other works from his father's collection
citations: (Duveen Brothers, Paris, sold to Edouard Kann)1 date: 1905-1907 footnotes: *
1 In 1905, shortly after Rodolphe Kann's death, Duveen announced its purchase of Kann's entire collection, which would be sold from the firm's new office in Paris (Catherine Scallen, Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship).  Because Kann had left no will, problems ensued and it took over two years for the transaction to be officially completed; on August 7, 1907 the completion of the sale was published (James Henry Duveen, The Rise of the House of Duveen).  The Rigaud appears under stock no. 156 in the Duveen stock book that inventories the Rodolphe Kann collection. 
citations: Rodolphe Kann, Paris, collection purchased by the Duveen Brothers date: By 1900-1907 footnotes: citations: (Possibly P. & D. Colnaghi, London) 1 date: footnotes: *
1According to the Frick Art Reference Library's annotated copy of the 1892 Christie's sale catalogue, the painting was purchased by Colnaghi.  Unfortunately, Colnaghi's stock books do not go back as far as 1892 and thus this purchase cannot be confirmed.  Furthermore, there are no published versions of the painting's provenance that include Colnaghi.
citations: (Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 21, 1892, no. 68, possibly sold to P. & D. Colnaghi)1 date: 1892 footnotes: *
1 The sale does include the collection of the 4th Earl of Egremont, but the whereabouts of the painting from his death in 1845 until the sale in 1892 are unknown.
citations: George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont [1786 – 1845] date: -1845 footnotes: citations: Mlle. Violat (heiress of Cardinal Dubois), Chateau de Villemenon, near Brie-Comte-Robert 1 date: by 1764 footnotes: *
1The Archives de l'art français; recueil de documents inédits publié par la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, vol. 19, pp. 312-315 contains the correspondence between Charles-Nicolas Cochin and the Marquis de Marigny that refer to Violat's possession of the painting.
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Perreau, Stéphan. Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743): catalogue concis de l'oeuvre. Sète, France: Nouvelles Presses de Languedoc, 2013. page number: url: Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux anciens…Par ou attribués à: J. Aved – Moreau L’Ainé – A. van der Neer – H. Rigaud et des écoles anglaise, française et hollandaise appartenant à divers amateurs. Dec. 10, 1956. page number: url: Alison Cathie, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, Feb. 22, 1972, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Mrs. C.A. [Hannelore] Osborne, letter to Martine Delbecq, Nov. 7, 1973, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Duveen Brothers records, 1876-1981 (bulk 1909-1964), Series 1. Business records, 1876-1964, box 115, reel 38, Stock book 1: Rodolfe Kann Collection, 1907, page 12. Digitized. Getty Research Institute. page number: url: Perreau, Stéphan. Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743): catalogue concis de l'oeuvre. Sète, France: Nouvelles Presses de Languedoc, 2013. page number: url: Duveen Brothers records, 1876-1981 (bulk 1909-1964), Series 1. Business records, 1876-1964, box 115, reel 38, Stock book 1: Rodolfe Kann Collection, 1907, page 12. Digitized. Getty Research Institute. page number: url: Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection: Pictures. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1907. page number: url: Alison Cathie, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, Feb. 22, 1972, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Mrs. C.A. [Hannelore] Osborne, letter to Martine Delbecq, Nov. 7, 1973, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Fifty Capital Pictures by Ancient and Modern Masters. 1892. page number: url: Perreau, Stéphan. Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743): catalogue concis de l'oeuvre. Sète, France: Nouvelles Presses de Languedoc, 2013. page number: url: Mrs. C.A. 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Hyacinthe Rigau, ou, le portrait soleil. 2020. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; pp. 310-310, no. 106 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.17/1967.17_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.17/1967.17_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.17/1967.17_full.tif