Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Crowned by Love, 1775

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Medium

red chalk, black chalk, pen and black and gray ink with watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 17.2 x 22.6 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1931, no. 80

Accession Number

1963.15.29

Artists / Makers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1724 - 1780

Image Use

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Inscription

in artist's hand, across bottom in black ink: le duc d'Angouleme, né le 6 aoust 1775 madame Clotilde Soeur du roi marie la même anée; inscribed on the verso [illeg.]nière ne fait point la méprision [?] Celebré dans votre palais le fils du cher comte d'artois [illeg] que l'autre matin [illeg.] aprocher du [illeg.] que par qui [illeg] iiii [illeg.] où se devra floter sa baniere

Provenance

Marquis de Castelbajac. [1] Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912), Paris (Lugt 2232; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 13-14 March 1887, no. 181, as from Castelbajac: ce Dessin provient de la vente du marquis de Castelbajac). Richard Owen, Paris; Purchased 1940 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] According to Portalis sale catalogue it was owned by Castelbajac. However, no information could be found on this previous owner, nor on his sale.

Associated Names

Castelbajac Marquis de
Drouot, Hôtel
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Owen, Richard
Portalis, Roger Baron

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 160-161, 284, no. 69 (color).

Bibliography

1929: Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 15, no. 80.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 343-344, dK588, fig. 311.