Category:Prince Hercule-François, Duc d'Alençon (National Gallery of Art)

Provenance:

• John Stuart Bligh, 6th earl of Darnley [1827-1896], Cobham Hall, Kent, by 1851;
• by inheritance to his son, Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th earl of Darnley [1851-1900], Cobham Hall;
• by inheritance to his brother, Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th earl of Darnley [1859-1927], Cobham Hall;
• (Darnley sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1 May 1925, no. 57, as by François Pourbus);
• purchased by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) and (P. & D. Colnaghi, London and New York);
• sold November 1925 to Otto H. Kahn [1867-1934], New York;
• his heirs;
• on consignment from 1942 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York, London, and Paris, as by Pieter Pourbus the Elder);
• purchased 1947 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, as Attributed to François Clouet;
• gift 1961 to NGA.

• 1946, Exhibition of Old Masters, Duveen Galleries, New York, 1946, no. 6, as by Frans Pourbus.
• 1951, French Painting 1100-1900, Carnegie Institute, 1951, no. 45, as School of François Clouet.
• 1984, William de Zwijger (William the Silent), Stedelijk Museum "Het Prinsenhof," Delft, The Netherlands; Musée de la Ville "Maison du Roi," Brussels, 1984, no 6.14.
• 2015, Les Tudors, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2015, no. 84, fig. 136.