Allégorie des Ecoles gratuites du dessein (Allegory of the Free Drawing Schools), 1751, reworked in 1766

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Medium

etching reworked with graphite and black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 17.9 × 13.3 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
plate: 16.7 × 12.7 cm (6 9/16 × 5 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1914, no. 5, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1958.8.138

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: No 600 [over which is written in black ink "1500"] / dot 300 [over which is written in black ink an indecipherable word]; in plate, in image, at lower right: G de S aubin invenit [on smoothing plane]; in plate, below image: ALLEGORIE DE MARIAGES FAITS PAR LA VILLE [over which has been written, in black ink: L'ALLÉGORIE DES ÉCOLES GRATUITES DE DESSein] / de paris. à la naissance de mgnr le duc de bourgogne en 1751 [over which has been written, in black ink: établies...à la Sollicitation de mr bachelier adjoint a professeur de l'academie R / 1766]; at bottom in graphite: les genie des diferents arts alluminent leur flambeaux a Celui du [indecipherable] 1766; verso: none

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

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.