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Imaginary portrait of Jacques Cartier

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

ca. 1844

Reference:

Accession number: 00001, 1997-218 X DAP, Box number: OP-0024

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2894521

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Théophile Hamel collection

Imaginary portrait of Jacques Cartier
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Date(s):

ca. 1844

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas
Support 130.500 x 97.000 cm
Platemark x cm

Language of material:

no language

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Please note that there are no known authenticated portraits of Jacques Cartier., This portrait by Hamel is copied from a painting done in 1839 by Francois Riss for the town of St. Malo in France. Riss apparently based his portrait on an old sketch in the Bibliotheque nationale (Paris). Just what this sketch was is not known. See the portrait file for Jacques Cartier for further information.
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Copyist (art): Hamel, Théophile, 1817-1870

Artist: Riss, François, fl. 1839

Depicted: Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557

Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Critical Acclaim: A Selection of Portraits from the National Archives of Canada. National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1999.05.18 - 1999.11.14, Exhibition title: Foundations: The Words That Shaped Canada. Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario; 2017.03.06 - 2017.12.31., Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 5: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2001.01.22 - 2001.11.12, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 6: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2002.02.18 - 2002.11.17

Container note(s):

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C-011226 : Unframed

Subject heading:

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Portraits

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1996-02818-9
1997-218 DAP

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00001
1997-218 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of an art archivist

Box [1997-218]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0024 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1997-218]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-011226 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1997-218-1
Copyright: Expired

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