Claude Corneille de Lyon, genannt Corneille de... Lot n° 285

PORTRAIT OF A BEARLY MAN WITH BLACK WAMS Oil on wood panel. 16,5 x 14 cm. Verso red wax stamp. In partially gilded and painted frame. The complete works of Corneille de La Haye - he took this name because he settled in France, but he is best known as Corneille de Lyon- consists of portraits of smaller dimension and colored canvases. However, this corpus is far from perfectly executed. Not only the artist's painting style changes over time, but also the fact that he adapts to his clients, who visit him in his studio. Almost frontal portraits of notable and wealthy people, executed with a light hand and never copied, in addition to portraits of noblemen and ladies of the court with a more classical and demonstrative representation and more attentive execution. What these portraits of aristocrats and princes have in common is that they exist in various versions of greatly varying quality, without it always being possible to distinguish the image made directly from nature from the replica. Our portrait, of which the virtuoso execution of the black doublet must be emphasized, shows a young bearded man facing right against a greenish background. The high-contrast depiction allows us to date the painting to ca. 1560. Provenance: Collection Paul-Louis Weiller. Sale Hotel Drouot, Paris, Gros & Delettrez, April 5, 2011, lot 11. (1300073) (18) Claude de Lyon, also known as Corneille de la Haye, 1500/10 The Hague - 1575 Lyon, attributed and workshop PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN IN BLACK WAISTCOAT Oil on panel. 16.5 x 14 cm. Provenance: Paul-Louis Weiller collection. Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Gros & Delettrez, 5 April 2011, no. 11.