Frontispiece: Allegorical Composition (Composition allegorique)

1767

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin and Charles Francois Le Tellier

Associated Names
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

Charles Francois Le Tellier

Artist, French, 1743 - probably 1800

The image shows a person standing confidently with one arm resting on a tall tool or staff, the other hand on their hip. The person has distinct facial features and styled hair with a feathered ornament. They wear a skirt-like garment made of feathers. Various objects are around them, including a cylindrical item and a container on the ground. In the background are skies, a tree, hills, and seated figures. The scene is rendered in a detailed, monochromatic sketch style.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 14 × 8.8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dacier 1914, no. 40, State undesc

  • Series Title

    Bossu's "Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales," pt.1

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1914

  • Dacier, Emile. L'oeuvre grave de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin; notice biographique et catalogue raisonne. Paris: Societe pour l'Etude de la Gravure Francaise, 1914.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: aubin; in plate, below image, at left: G de S Aubin / aqua forti; in plate, below image, at right: Letellier Sc; verso: at center in graphite in later hand: Bossu / P de B 37

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65224405

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