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François Ier de Montmorency, comte de Dammartin, then duc de Montmorency (1530-1579)
François Ier de Montmorency, comte de Dammartin, then duc de Montmorency (1530-1579)

François Ier de Montmorency, comte de Dammartin, then duc de Montmorency (1530-1579)

François Clouet (French, 1510–1572)
about 1557
Medium/TechniqueBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 31 x 21.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line1939 Purchase Fund and Otis Norcross Fund
Accession number46.348
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ClassificationsDrawings
Inscriptionsupper margin, cut and pasted to the border: Marechal de mõtmorencyProvenanceWilliam Ponsonby, 2nd Count of Bessborough (died 1793); Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Count of Bessborough (1758-1844) (attributed to Holbein); Edward M. Hodgkins, London; Charle Wickert, Paris (died 1918); George Jay Gould (1864-1923); Mr. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984); acquired April 11, 1946 by the Purchase Fund and Otis Norcross Fund, MFA.