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An equestrian game with riders jousting among fireworks
Maker
1521-1599
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Width: 48.1 cm
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Exhibition History
The Valois Tapestries, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 18/11/2018-10/02/2019
Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de Medici, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/01/2018-15/04/2018 ...More
Drawings Gallery Display - Unseen, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/01/2015-29/03/2015
The Four Elements, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1996
French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991
Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962
Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less
Literature
pp. 93-100
Ehrmann, Jean, 'Caron et les tapisseries de Valois' in 'La Revue des Arts', 1956; I
pp. 9ff
Ehrmann, Jean, 'Dessins d'Antoine Caron pour le tapisseries des Valois' in 'Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de l'Art Français', November 1956
no. 6 on p. 119
opp. p. 120 ...More
Ehrmann, Jean, 'Drawings by Antoine Caron for the Valois Tapestries in the Uffizi Florence' in 'Art Quarterly', 1958 - pp. 47-65; XXI
p. 55
fig. 9
Art Quarterly, Spring 1958
ill.
Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 31
Yates, Frances, The Valois tapestries, London 1959
pp. xxv, 3-5, 55-56, 59, 62, 66, 69-80
Andrews, Keith, Fifty Master Drawings in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh 1961
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 54
G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 294
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 24
Ehrmann, Jean, Antoine Caron: Peintre des fêtes et des massacres, Paris 1986
fig. 174 on p. 197
Groër, Léon de, Les tapisseries des Valois du Musée des Offices à Florence, 1987 - pp. 125-34
pp. 125-34
Old Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1990-1991, 1990
p. 120
French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 8, p. 24
ill. on p. 25
Hueber, Frédéric, Antoine Caron: peintre de ville, peintre de cour 1521-1599, Tours, Presses universitaires François Rabelais de Tours; Rennes, Presses unversitaires de Rennes 2018
p. 284, no. 18.8
ill. on p. 284
Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de' Medici, Courtauld Gallery 2018 London, Paul Holberton 2018, 84
pp. 28, 39, 60
cat. 8, pp. 61, 62
Beaufils, Oriane and Vincent Droguet (eds.), L'Art de la Fete a la Cour des Valois, Chateau de Fontainebleu 2020
pp. 106-148 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: “6.”. Support (historic), Verso: upper right corner, brown ink, obscured by tape: “2 n 40 [?]”; upper right, on a sticker, grey ink: “382”; left of centre, graphite: “16/15”; centre, graphite, faded and hard to read: “Br[ussels?] / Peintre de / […] 2 //”; centre, graphite: “?27x20”; lower right, graphite, upside down and large: “Mrs Mayor”; lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A21086 Hx”; lower right corner, on remnant of some tape, graphite: “4”.
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