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CIRCLE OF JOOS VAN CLEVE (?CLEVE C. 1485-1540/1 ANTWERP)
Portrait of King Francis I of France, bust-length
oil on panel
638 x 538 in. (16.2 x 13.7 cm.)

Provenance
H. Goldman, New York.
Arthur A. Houghton (1906-1990), by descent to his wife, Nina R. Houghton.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Paintings, IX, Part I, Leiden, 1972, p. 66, no. 72e, plate 93e, as 'J. van Cleve, copy'.
J.O. Hand, Joos van Cleve, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 168, no. 85.12, as 'copy of Joos'.
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The prime version of this portrait is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Johnson Collection, and depicts the king in bust length, wearing the same black, fur-lined surcoat, embroidered with pearls, but with a grey doublet rather than the red one seen here.

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