Draftsmen Outdoors, c. 1760

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and stumping on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 16.9 x 22.9 cm (6 5/8 x 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ian Woodner

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1931, no. 407, State (10)

Accession Number

1982.81.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

signed at lower right in black chalk: St aubin; inscribed by the artist's brother, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin in pen and brown ink at lower center: G. St Aubin.del.; by a later hand, lower center in graphite: 1780; verso, by a later hand, lower left in graphite: 19729

Marks and Labels

recto: Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919] (Lugt 421), Paris; Stieglitz Library, St. Petersburg; Hermitage Museum, after 1926; (sale, Paris, Hotel George V, 9 December 1981, lot 60); (Artemis Fine Arts Ltd., London, 1982); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1982; gift to NGA, 1982.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Beurdeley, Alfred
State Hermitage Museum
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1982: Master Prints and Drawings 15th to 19th Centuries. Artemis Fine Arts Limited, London, 1982, no. 34.

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 87 (entry by Suzanne Folds McCullagh).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 154-155, 284, no. 66 (color).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1929: Dacier, Émile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur. 2 vols. Paris, 1929-1931, 2: 62, no. 407(10).