LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

6.85 in. (17.40 cm.) (height) by 6.18 in. (15.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Pictures from the Basildon Park and Fonthill collections, Winter 1914-1915, no. 43. London, Royal Academy; and Manchester, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, 4 January-1 May 1932, nos. 112 and 109 respectively, as 'Attributed to Corneille de Lyon, Portrait of Théodore Bèze' (lent by J.G. Morrison, Fonthill).

Literature:

A. Dubois de Groër, Corneille De La Haye, dit Corneille De Lyon, Paris, 1996, pp. 173-4, no. 70.

Provenance:

Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, and by descent to the present owner.