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Louis de Saint-Gelais, baron de La Mothe-Saint-Héray, seigneur de Lansac (1512-1589)
Louis de Saint-Gelais, baron de La Mothe-Saint-Héray, seigneur de Lansac (1512-1589)

Louis de Saint-Gelais, baron de La Mothe-Saint-Héray, seigneur de Lansac (1512-1589)

François Clouet (French, 1510–1572)
François Clouet (French, 1510–1572)
about 1561
Medium/TechniqueBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 30.5 x 20.1 cm (12 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line1939 Purchase Fund and Otis Norcross Fund
Accession number46.350
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ClassificationsDrawings
Inscriptionsu.r.: Mom[r] de/[lan]sacProvenanceWilliam 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.