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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of young man with blond hair 1640 charcoal, colored chalks Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of man wearing a beauty spot 1632-33 charcoal, colored chalks Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700 is an authoritative sourcebook by our good friend Anthony Blunt, whose grasp of the subject is famous for balance and clarity. Coming across Daniel Dumonstier's amazing portrait-drawings at the Hermitage (as above) I was keen to see what Blunt had said about this artist I had somehow overlooked until the present. Yet Art and Architecture in France accorded poor Dumonstier only the briefest of mentions (not even in the text, but in a footnote) – "The sixteenth-century style of portrait-drawing continues in Daniel Dumonstier."
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of Cardinal d'Ossat before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait, possibly young Anne of Austria 1615 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of the Duc de Montmorency ca. 1630 charcoal, colored chalks Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown woman ca. 1620 charcoal, colored chalks Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of a cleric before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of Madame de Bouchepiscot before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown young man before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown woman before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown man before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown woman before 1646 drawing, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of unknown woman before 1646 charcoal, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Daniel Dumonstier Bust of Cardinal Rochefoucault 1624 charcoal, colored chalks Art Institute of Chicago |