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A young gentleman
Painter:
Le Nain, Antoine
(Formerly attributed to)
Le Nain, Mathieu
(Formerly attributed to)
History note: (?) Anon. sale (Silvestre) ('Catalogue de tableux originaux de grands maitres. Figures en bronze, Vases de marbre, & Porcelaines garnies en bronze doré d'or moulu; Tables de Boule & autres objets curieux') Paris, Hôtel d' Aligre, 16 November 1778, lot 109, bt. Viscount Fitzwilliam
Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 18.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Circa 1635 - 1640
Support composed of panel (wood)
Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel
Accession number: 328
Primary reference Number: 2761
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A young gentleman" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/2761 Accessed: 2023-06-07 16:11:44
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-2761
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: PD.1-2014
Accession Number: P.14345-R-26
Accession Number: P.14410-R-32
Accession Number: GR.55.1896
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