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Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and red and black chalk with gray and brown wash on two overlapping sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.2 x 22.5 cm (6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.30

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dacier 1931, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

T. C. Bruun-Neergaard (Lugt 1939a), 1810. [1] Richard Owen, Paris; Purchased 1940 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Inscribed on verso of the drawing. This drawing maybe one of the 18 drawings on sale 31 August 1814, as listed in Neergaard’s sale in the Catalogue Raisonné de Gouaches et de Dessins 29 August-2 September 1814, Paris.

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Bibliography

1929

  • Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris: G. van Oest, 1929-1931.

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: p.344: dK590, fig.312 (as "Intimate Scene").

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, on verso in brown ink: (list of items and amounts)

Wikidata ID

Q64570991

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