French school around 1590 Portrait of Nicolas Vauquelin des Yveteaux (1567-1647) Oil on walnut panel, one board not parqueted (old restorations). Height : 42,5 cm 42,5 cm - Width : 30 cm Note : Vauquelin des Yveteaux is an epicurean poet born in the castle of La Fresnaye (Calvados). After having been the tutor of the Duke of Vendôme, he was the tutor of the Dauphin, son of Henri IV and future Louis XIII. In 1595, date of the portrait, he published "Three harangues" and, putting his talents at the service of the court, he published several collections of verses on the occasion of important events: in 1601, for example, the one "On the birth of my lord the dolphin". He died in Paris in 1647. The portrait was engraved in 1844 by Charles Dev@rits. Provenance : Collection of baron de La Fresnaye, Falaise, in 1878 - collection of the viscount of Amphernet. Inscribed at the top left "Missire Nicolas Vauquelin / s[ieu]r des yueteaus, con[seill]er / du Roy en son / Conseil destat Et / Precepteur du / Roy Louis XIII." and dated at the right 1595 Old label "Exposition Universelle de 1878/Galerie des Portraits Nationaux/N° 399/ Chenue/ Emballeur Expéditeur". Exhibition: Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1878 Bibliography: Henry JOUIN: Notice historique et analytique des peintures, sculptures, tapisseries, miniatures... exposés dans les galeries des portraits nationaux au palais du Trocadéro (Paris, 1879), n°100 p. 23 (Vauquelin des Yveteaux - Wood, 0,41 x 0,30 m - Unknown author ... Bust, front, bare head; lace burr; dark colored garment - The inscription is carried over- Georges Mongrédien, Etude sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Nicolas Vauquelin, Seigneur des Yveteaux, précepteur de Louis XIII (1567-1649), Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1967, reproduced in frontispiece. Expert : Cabinet Turquin.