Lot 493
  • 493

Circle of Corneille de Lyon

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Corneille de Lyon
  • A portrait of Marguerite of France, Duchess of Berry (1492-1549), half length in a black dress, trimmed with white fur, wearing a black cap set with pearls and a white feather
  • oil on panel, in a renaissance-style tabernacle frame 
  • 18 by 15 cm.

Catalogue Note

This composition of Marguerite Duchesse de Berry (1492-1549) follows the examples made by Corneille de Lyon. The prototype is thought to be in Versailles, with minor differences in the pose of the face and necklace.[1] A similar version is held at Chantilly, where the sitter wears a different dress.[2] The fine renaissance-style frame is typical for De Lyon's works. The Portrait of Louise de Rieux, Marquise d'Elbeuf (1531-1570), by De Lyon, in the Musée du Louvre (inv. no. R.F. 669), is in a similar renaissance-style frame.

 

[1]. See Dubois de Groër 1996, p. 213, no. 126; Versailles, Musée du Château, inv. nr. MV 3181.

2. idem, no. 126; Chantilly, Musée Condé, inv. nr. 28/245.