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Ver Heyden de Lancey (Cornelius) collection of French letters and
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2017.M.62
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Title: Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by
painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers
Date (inclusive): 1691-1825, undated
Number: 2017.M.62
Creator/Collector:
Ver Heyden de Lancey,
Cornelius, 1889-1984
Physical Description:
4.67 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
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: Collection material is primarily in
French with some Danish and German. Modern research materials are in English.
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.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
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Library Reproductions and Permissions .
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
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 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.
Arranged and described in 2018 by Sarah Mackenzie Wade.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Arranged alphabetically.
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
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
Ver Heyden de Lancey,
Cornelius, 1889-1984
Volkoff, Ivan
Von Hohenlohe, Adelheid A.