Le Bain (The Bath)

c. 1748, published in or after 1754

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin

Associated Names
Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1721 - 1786

Etienne Fessard

Publisher, French, 1714 - 1777

The image shows a detailed abstract composition with curved lines, a central boat-like figure with masts and sail-like cloths adorned with floral arrangements, butterfly-like shapes with humanoid figures on the sides, and a decorative base with scrolls and floral motifs encapsulating banners and the text "LE BAIN".

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.8 × 27.3 cm (7 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 30.3 × 44.7 cm (11 15/16 × 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.124

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Baudicour, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1955, no. 68); (via Henri M. Petiet, Paris); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1958.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1859

  • Baudicour, Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1859-1861. Reprint, Paris, 1967: Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris: Mme Bouchard Huzard, Rapilly [etc.], 1859-1861.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower center: LE / BAIN; verso: at center in brown ink in 18th-century hand: No 93 [?]

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222191

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