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AT-00003077Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Executing the Portrait of the Bishop of Chartres
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, recto, lower center right, in pen and brown ink
Provenance
Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué (1780–1860), Paris, by 1860; by descent to his estate, 1861; sold, his estate sale, L’Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs Rue Drouot, May 17–18, 1861, lot 85, to Hippolyte Destailleur (1822–1893), Paris [annotated catalogue notes a sale to “Det.,” likely “Destailleur”]; by descent to his estate, 1893; offered for sale, L’Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs Rue Drouot and La Librairie Damascène Morgand, May 26–27, 1893, lot 112.10, bought in; sold, Hôtel Drouot and Damascène Morgand, Paris, May 19–22, 1896, lot 863, to Brame [Dacier 1931]. Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, 12th Marquis de Biron (1859–1939), Bordeaux, France, later Geneva [Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961), p. 40]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9–11, 1914, lot 58, probably to Baron Christian de Marinitch [this and the following according to Dacier 1931]. Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957), Paris, by 1931; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, 1940 [ERR inventory no. BoR 177]; transferred to the Louvre, Dec. 19, 1940; transferred to the Jeu de Paume, May 2, 1941; transferred to Altaussee, Austria, Oct. 27, 1944 [transfer place noted as “Peter Lager,” a code name for Altaussee]; recovered by Allied forces, by June 24, 1945 [this and the following according to Munich Central Collecting Point Restitution file, Federal Archives, B323/648]; repatriated to France, Sept. 9, 1946; restituted to Maurice de Rothschild, Dec. 17, 1946 [209SUP/15 - Dossier 45.267209SUP/15 Archives diplomatiques]. Sold by Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 104-05, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-January 8, 1988. Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, “Theatricality in the Baroque,” January 5-April 22, 2001, p. 20, cat. 7, fig. 12. New York, The Frick Collection, “Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724–1780,” October 30, 2007–May 26, 2008, pp. 55, 116, 117, and 320, cat. 4, cat. by Colin B. Bailey and Pierre Rosenberg et. al.; traveled to Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 28-May 26, 2008
Publications
Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1931), no. 237 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin as a Draughtsman (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 23 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin / French, 1724-1780
- Date
- 1768
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 18.4 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund, and gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Friedman, Mrs. Charles Folds, and Mrs. George B. Young
- Accession no.
- 1981.152
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