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Description French School, 1568
Portrait of Gaspard II de Coligny (1519-1572)
later inscribed upper left and right: Gaspr Coligny.?/??ta: 41.;?and?dated upper left: 1568.
oil on panel
28.3 x 22.7 cm.
Condition Report The panel is uncradled, flat and stable. The varnish is slightly discoloured. There is a spot of paint loss along the upper part of the very edge of the right margin (not visible in the catalogue illustration) and a pin-prick loss just above the centre of the sitter's chain. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals few, small and scattered cosmetic retouchings.
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Literature Inventory, 1749, in the dressing room;
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920,?'Small Panels', p. 24;
Inventory, 1926, p. 54, in the 'South Room';
H. Avray Tipping, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 8 August 1925, photographed in the hall, p. 219;
H. Avray Tipping,
English Homes, Late Georgian, 1760-1820, London, 1926, p. 124.
Notes Coligny was the principal?supporter of the Protestant (Huguenot) cause in France during the third?quarter of the 16th century. Having had a distinguished?military career and?been?made Admiral of France, he converted to the Protestant religion whilst?in prison in the Low Countries in the late 1550s. A correspondent of Calvin and an associate of Beza, he became leader of the Protestant faction following the death of The Prince of Conde in 1569. As such he became an adversary?and a target for the Guise family and of the Queen dowager, Catherine de Medici. In August 1572 an attempt?was made on his life, which he survived, only to be hacked to death a few days later as part of the St. Bartholomew Day's?Massacre. The image is in the style of Fran?ois Clouet, though no direct source has been identified. The inscription, which is later, is incorrect, as in 1568 the sitter would have been 49, not 41.