Draftsmen Outdoors

c. 1760

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and stumping on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.9 x 22.9 cm (6 5/8 x 9 in.)

  • Accession

    1982.81.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dacier 1931, no. 407, State (10)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919] (Lugt 421), Paris; Stieglitz Library, St. Petersburg; Hermitage Museum, after 1926; (sale, Paris, Hotel George V, 9 December 1981, lot 60); (Artemis Fine Arts Ltd., London, 1982); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1982; gift to NGA, 1982.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Master Prints and Drawings 15th to 19th Centuries. Artemis Fine Arts Limited, London, 1982, no. 34.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 87 (entry by Suzanne Folds McCullagh).

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 154-155, 284, no. 66 (color).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1929

  • Dacier, Émile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 62, no. 407(10).

Inscriptions

signed at lower right in black chalk: St aubin; inscribed by the artist's brother, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin in pen and brown ink at lower center: G. St Aubin.del.; by a later hand, lower center in graphite: 1780; verso, by a later hand, lower left in graphite: 19729

Markings

recto: Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)

Watermarks

FINDE A PALHION / FOREST 1742 (similar to Heawood 3399)

Wikidata ID

Q64570995

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