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Ver Heyden de Lancey (Cornelius) collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers
2017.M.62
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers
Creator: Ver Heyden de Lancey, Cornelius, 1889-1984
source: Volkoff, Ivan
source: Von Hohenlohe, Adelheid A.
Identifier/Call Number: 2017.M.62
Physical Description: 4.67 Linear Feet(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1691-1825, undated
Abstract: The Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection comprises manuscript correspondence and documents by over 75 painters, sculptors,
architects, and printmakers, predominantly from 17th- and 18th-century France.
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Language of Material: Collection material is primarily in French, with some Danish and German. Modern research materials are in English.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2017.
Arranged alphabetically.
Dutch-born British baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a medical doctor, dentist, and barrister, as well
as an art historian and collector of French historical books, letters, and manuscripts. De Lancey studied medicine and dentistry
at the University of Leiden, earned his dental degree in the United States, and practiced dentistry in London and Italy, where
he developed his research interests in art history and the arts. In 1970, De Lancey and his wife, Josephine de la Hanty, founded
the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, an organization dedicated to the study of medical law that also sponsors arts initiatives
in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. De Lancey died on Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1984.
Sources consulted:
About the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey: 1889-1984, the website for the De Lancey Foundation, accessed July 23, 2018, http://www.delanceyfoundation.co.uk/#the-person.
David Brafman, Acquisition Approval Form for
Collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, accession no. 2017.M.62, March 10, 2017.
The repository's Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection was acquired in the 1980s by Adelheid A. Von Hohenlohe, the late
wife of Ivan Volkoff. Many items in the collection bear de Lancey's blind stamp, Lugt 2701a.
Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers,
1691-1825, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.M.62.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017m62
Arranged and described in 2018 by Sarah Mackenzie Wade.
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The collection comprises manuscript correspondence and documents by over 75 painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers,
predominantly from 17th- and 18th-century France. Correspondence constitutes the bulk of the collection; additional materials
include financial and legal documents such as manuscript receipts, promissory notes, discharges of debt, commission contracts
for works of art, lease agreements, a royal brevet, and a partition of estate. The collection also includes signed statements
by groups of artists and members of the royal academy.
French artists represented in the collection include painters and draftsmen Nicolas de Largillierre and Hubert Robert; painters
Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Jean-Baptiste Regnault; academician Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis; architects Marie-Joseph Peyre,
Michel-Barthélemy Hazon, Jean Chalgrin, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel; sculptors Laurent Guiard, Noël Jouvenet V, and Philippe-Laurent
Roland; printmakers Noël Hallé, Nicolas Ponce, and Simon Thomassin; and engravers Jean Bernard Restout and Joseph-Marie Vien
the elder. The collection also includes materials by Danish engraver Johan Frederik Clemens and German printmaker Johann Gotthard
von Müller.
The collection is arranged alphabetically, largely in adherence with the organization of Volkoff and Von Hohenlohe, with minor
adjustments to accommodate standardized names of artists. Original manuscripts have been maintained alongside collectors'
research and acquisition documents, which include annotated typescript descriptive notes for the Ver Heyden de Lancey acquisitions,
twenty-first century laser printouts of electronic resource research materials assembled by Von Hohenlohe, and photographs
of portraits of the artists. Collector dossier folders that comprise only modern English-language research materials were
incorporated into folders containing the relevant French-language manuscripts. Von Hohenlohe's dossier numbers are detailed
in descriptive notes at the component level.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art, French -- 17th century
Art, French -- 18th century
Art, French -- 19th century
Artists -- France -- Correspondence
Architects -- France -- Correspondence
Painters -- France -- Correspondence
Printmakers -- France -- Correspondence
Sculptors -- France -- Correspondence
Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 17th century
Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 19th century
Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 17th century
Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 18th century
Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 19th century
Chromogenic color prints
Gelatin silver prints -- 21st century
Photographs, Original
Volkoff, Ivan
Von Hohenlohe, Adelheid A.
Hallé, Noël, 1711-1781
Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808
Largillierre, Nicolas de, 1656-1746
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
Peyre, Marie-Joseph, 1730-1785
Regnault, Jean-Baptiste, baron, 1754-1829
Restout, Jean-Bernard, 1732-1797
Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809
Duplessis, Joseph-Siffrède, 1725-1802
Chalgrin, Jean-François-Thérèse, 1739-1811
Gabriel, Ange-Jacques, 1698-1782
Guiard, Laurent, 1723-1788
Roland, Philippe-Laurent, 1746-1816
Hazon, Michel Barthelemy
Jouvenet, Nöel V
Müller, Johann Gotthard, 1747-1830
Clemens, Johan Frederik, 1748-1831