Gabriel Blanchard

Artist Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659-1743)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1715

DimensionsPainting (H x W): 18 1/2 × 14 in. (47 × 35.6 cm)
Frame (H x W x D): 26 × 21 3/4 × 3 in. (66 × 55.2 × 7.6 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1959.15

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 26, Rotunda

Label TextOfficial portrait painter to three generations of the Bourbon monarchs of France (including the Sun King, Louis XIV), Hyacinthe Rigaud imbued his subjects with a sense of elegant superiority. Official portrait painter to three generations of the Bourbon monarchs of France (including the Sun King, Louis XIV), Hyacinthe Rigaud imbued his subjects with a sense of elegant superiority. This study for a finished, bust-length painting now in the collection of the Château de Parentignat in France depicts the painter Gabriel Blanchard (1630–1704). The son of the better-known painter Jacques Blanchard (1600–1638), Gabriel worked for Louis XIV as keeper of the royal collection. He was also professor and, later, treasurer at the Royal Academy.Published ReferencesRoman, J., Le livre de raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud, Paris, 1919, p. 176.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-Sept. 1959," Art Quarterly, vol. 22, 1959, p. 386, repr. p. 387.

"La Chronique des Arts," supplement toGazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1105, Feb. 1961, p. 34, repr.

"French Art 1600-1800," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 4, Autumn 1960, p. 86, repr.

A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1966, repr.

Watson, F. J. B., "Eighteenth-Century Painting and Decorative Arts," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 458, repr. fig. 6, p. 457.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 142, pl. 196.

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, New York, Christie's sale, Jan. 10, 1990, p. 96.

Exhibition HistoryCleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth and the Portrait, 1963, no. 20, repr.