Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Crowned by Love
1775
Artist, French, 1724 - 1780
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk, black chalk, pen and black and gray ink with watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 17.2 x 22.6 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1963.15.29
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dacier 1931, no. 80
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Marquis de Castelbajac. [1] Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912), Paris (Lugt 2232; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 13-14 March 1887, no. 181, as from Castelbajac: ce Dessin provient de la vente du marquis de Castelbajac). Richard Owen, Paris; Purchased 1940 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to Portalis sale catalogue it was owned by Castelbajac. However, no information could be found on this previous owner, nor on his sale.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 160-161, 284, no. 69 (color).
Bibliography
1929
Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 15, no. 80.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 343-344, dK588, fig. 311.
Inscriptions
in artist's hand, across bottom in black ink: le duc d'Angouleme, né le 6 aoust 1775 madame Clotilde Soeur du roi marie la même anée; inscribed on the verso [illeg.]nière ne fait point la méprision [?] Celebré dans votre palais le fils du cher comte d'artois [illeg] que l'autre matin [illeg.] aprocher du [illeg.] que par qui [illeg] iiii [illeg.] où se devra floter sa baniere
Wikidata ID
Q64570990