Le Papillon et la Tortue (The Butterfly and the Turtle), in or after 1756

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 17.2 × 13.5 cm (6 3/4 × 5 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Baudicour, no. 13, State only

Accession Number

1958.8.149

Artists / Makers

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1721 - 1786

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower right: de Saint Aubin; verso: at bottom center in graphite in later hand: C.G. SaintAubin B-22007

Marks and Labels

recto: at lower right, blindstamp of Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (Lugt 2200); verso: National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris (Lugt 2200). (sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1955, no. 70); (via Henri M. Petiet, Paris); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1958.

Associated Names

Petiet, Henri M.
Robert-Dumesnil, Alexandre-Pierre-François
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1984: Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984-1985, no. 36, repro.

Bibliography

1859: Baudicour, Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1859-1861. Reprint, Paris, 1967: Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris: Mme Bouchard Huzard, Rapilly [etc.], 1859-1861.

1984: Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.36.