Rendezvous in the Palais Royal, 1774

Inscription

lower center: 20 may 1774 / a 8 hr du Soir; verso, in another hand in graphtie: 4 St. Aubin

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)

Exhibition History

1900

Rétrospective de la ville de Paris. Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris, no. 265.

1951

Le dessin français de Watteau à Prud'hon. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1951, no. 138.

1958

French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Mus2e de l'Orangerie, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1958-1959, no. 80.

1961

An Exhibition of French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1961, no. 41.

1968

France in the Eighteenth Century. Royal Academy of Arts, 1968, no. 629, fig. 320 (Denys Sutton with Francis Watson).

1975

Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780. Davison Art Center Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, and Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975, no. 53 (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, 158-159, 284, no. 68 (color).

Bibliography

1877

Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 2 (pt. 1): 570.

1929

Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 95, no. 543.

1980

Rosasco, Betsy. "Notes on Two Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Drawings and the Statues They Depict." Studies in the History of Art 9 (1980): 51, 52, 55, fig. 1.

2001

Hedin, Thomas F. "The Petite Commande of 1664: Burlesque in the Gardens of Versailles." The Art Bulletin 83, no. 4 (December 2001): 654, 662 (fig. 19), 679, 680 note 26, 684 note 202.

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