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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Allegorical Frame with a Bat, c. 1769

Not on View

Medium

pen and dark brown ink over graphite, red chalk, and black chalk with touches of white chalk on light brown laid paper, with partial framing line in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 13.9 x 8.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
support: 15.1 x 10.6 cm (5 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Regina Slatkin in memory of Charles E. Slatkin

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1931, no. 916

Accession Number

1978.84.1

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: G. de S. A.

Provenance

De Goncourt (Lugt 1089). Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin [1909-1999]; gift 1978 to NGA.

Associated Names

Slatkin, Charles E., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1880: Dessins de décoration et d'ornement de Maîtres anciens. Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 1880, no. 356.

1925: Exposition des Saint-Aubin. Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 1925: no. 51.

1933: Exposition Goncourt. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933, no. 255.

1959: French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern. Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1959, no. 47.

1967: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors. Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, [1967?], no. 66, pl. 66a.

1975: Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780. Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT., and Baltimore Museum of Art, no. 50A (Victor Carlson, Ellen D'Oench, and Richard S. Field).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 156-157, 284, no. 67a (color).

Bibliography

1875: Bocher, Emmanuel. Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. 6 vols. Paris, 1875-1882: 5:99-100, no. 273.

1880: Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du XVIIIe siècle. Rev. ed. 2 vols. Paris, 1880 and 1882, 1: 426, 467.

1881: Burty, Philippe. "La maison d'un artiste, à propos du récent ouvrage de Edmond de Goncourt." Le Livre 2 (May 1881): 160.

1881: Goncourt, Edmond de. La maison d'un artiste. 2 vols. Paris, 1881, 1: 146.

1914: Dacier, Émile. L'oeuvre gravé de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Paris, 1914: 160.

1925: Gronkowski, Camille. "L'Exposition des Saint-Aubin." Revue de l'Art français (April 1925): 177.

1929: Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 1: 78; 2: 169-170, nos, 916-917, mentioned under 916A.

1991: Launay, Élisabeth. Les frères Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins. Paris, 1991: 444-445, no. 293.