Allégorie des Ecoles gratuites du dessein (Allegory of the Free Drawing Schools)
1751, reworked in 1766
Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching reworked with graphite and black ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.9 × 13.3 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
plate: 16.7 × 12.7 cm (6 9/16 × 5 in.) -
Accession
1958.8.138
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dacier 1914, no. 5, State ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
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.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: No 600 [over which is written in black ink "1500"] / dot 300 [over which is written in black ink an indecipherable word]; in plate, in image, at lower right: G de S aubin invenit [on smoothing plane]; in plate, below image: ALLEGORIE DE MARIAGES FAITS PAR LA VILLE [over which has been written, in black ink: L'ALLÉGORIE DES ÉCOLES GRATUITES DE DESSein] / de paris. à la naissance de mgnr le duc de bourgogne en 1751 [over which has been written, in black ink: établies...à la Sollicitation de mr bachelier adjoint a professeur de l'academie R / 1766]; at bottom in graphite: les genie des diferents arts alluminent leur flambeaux a Celui du [indecipherable] 1766; verso: none
Markings
recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65224485