Draftsmen Outdoors

c. 1760

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Associated Names
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

The drawing shows four individuals with visible full bodies. On the left side, two people are sitting on the ground, leaning back with one foot extended and the other bent. They have facial features, curly hair, and loose, flowing clothing. To their right, two more individuals are sitting under a large umbrella, engaged in an activity involving a large sheet or blanket over a basket. These two individuals have long hair and wear long-sleeved garments. There are sketchy plant forms in the background to suggest an outdoor setting.

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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 Number

    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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