Four Vases (Les quatres vases)

1754

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Associated Names
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

This is an image showing four sketches of ornate urn designs. Each sketch features a different decorative urn with intricate embellishments. The top left sketch depicts an urn with cherubic figures, the top right shows a vessel with draped figures, the bottom left displays an urn supported by lion-like creatures, and the bottom right features an urn with figures on its surface. The designs appear to blend sculptural elements, possibly indicative of baroque or rococo styles.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 24.5 × 16.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.144

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dacier 1914, no. 12, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Of Time and the Image: Three Periods of Change, Philadelphia College of Art, 1965-1966, no. 42.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Four Vases.

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, on or below base of each vase: gabriel; in plate, at bottom right: 1754; verso: at lower right in brown ink in later hand: gabriel de st aubin

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65224512

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