Allégorie sur l'Erection de la Statue de Louis XV (Allegory on the Establishment of a Statue of Louis XV)

c. 1763

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with traces of roulette and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.7 × 23.7 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.3 × 24.4 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.16.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dacier 1914, no. 36, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri-Jean Thomas [1872-1960], Paris, (Lugt 1378);

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Of Time and the Image: Three Periods of Change, Philadelphia College of Art, 1965-1966, no. 41.

1984

  • Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984-1985, no. 50, repro.

Bibliography

1914

  • Dacier, Emile. L'oeuvre grave de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin; notice biographique et catalogue raisonne. Paris: Societe pour l'Etude de la Gravure Francaise, 1914.

1984

  • Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.50.

Markings

recto: none; verso: Henri-Jean Thomas (Lugt 1378)

Watermarks

to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q65224397

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