Ballet from "The Rival Fairies", 1748

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash on light beige laid paper, with a loose border line by the artist in pen and gray ink

Dimensions

overall: 13.7 x 20.6 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1931, no. 774

Accession Number

2000.9.23.a

Artists / Makers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1724 - 1780

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist in pen and gray ink at lower left: ballet des fée rivalles italiens

Provenance

M. Pérignon (his sale, Paris, 30-31 May 1864); his son, A. Pérignon (his sale, Paris, 17-23 May 1865, no. 141). Private collection (sale, Paris, 20-21 May 1873, no. 127). M. Audouin, by 1877. (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, 1917, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin
Laughlin, Irwin Boyle, The Hon.
Laughlin, Therese Iselin

Exhibition History

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 20.

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 152-153, 284, no. 65 (color; recto and verso).

Bibliography

1877: Portalis, Baron Roger. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 2 (pt. 1): 568.

1880: Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1884: 1:448 n. 1.

1924: Sharp, C. J. and A. P. Oppé. The Dance, An Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe. London, 1924: pl. 51.

1929: Dacier, Émile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 137, no. 774.

2003: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Jon Whiteley, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 7, French School, Master Drawings 41, no. 1, Spring, 2003: 66 (under no. 827), 68 note 14.