Lot 101: Corneille de la Haye, called Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10-1575 Lyon)

Corneille de la Haye, called Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10-1575 Lyon)
Portrait of the duc d'Étampes, bust-length, in a black tunic with a gold chain, white collar and plumbed black hat
oil on panel
6½ x 5½ in. (16.5 x 13.7 cm.)

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Les primitifs Français, 1904, no. 161, as datable to c. 1548.

G. Brière, Catalogue des Peintures, Louvre, I, Ecole Française, Paris, 1924, p. 280, as a replica of the Louvre version.
L. Dimier, Histoire de la Peinture de Portrait en France au XVIe Siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1925, II, p. 76, no. 299, as a copy after the original in The Wallace Collection which he attributes to the anonymous Master of Rieux de Châteauneuf.
Wallace Collection catalogues, Pictures and Drawings, London, 1928, p. 62, as a version of The Wallace Collection portrait.
C. Sterling and H. Adhémar, La Peinture au Musée du Louvre; Ecole Française, XIVe, XVe et XVIe Siècles, Paris, 1965, p. 30, under no. 35 as a replica.
C. Virch, The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection, New York, 1965, pp. 41-42, illustrated.
The Frances and John L. Loeb Collection, 1982, no. 2, illustrated. A. Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris, 1996, p. 155, under no. 46 as a replica.

Georges de Monbrison, Château de Saint-Roche, Le Pin, Tarn-et-Garonne, c. 1904.
Eugène Kraemer, Paris, before 1913.
Leopold Hirsch, London.
with Jacques Seligmann, New York.
Mrs. Arthur Lehman, New York, 1929, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 May 1997, lot 80.
with Richard Green, London, where acquired by John Deleage.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JEAN DELEAGE

Corneille de la Haye, called Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10-1575 Lyon)
Portrait of the duc d'Étampes, bust-length, in a black tunic with a gold chain, white collar and plumbed black hat
oil on panel
6½ x 5½ in. (16.5 x 13.7 cm.)