
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003232The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre
Provenance
Adrien Moreau-Néret, by 1931 [Dacier 1931]. Somerville and Simpson, London, c. 1979 [Folds McCullagh 1981]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Old Masters of the 15th-18th Centuries, 2 December 1989-8 June 1990. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 30; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Publications
Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, 2 vols. (Paris, 1929-1931), no. 439, pl. XV. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) as a Draughtsman, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2 vols, 1981, 1:310 and 348, no. 104. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, " ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 11-12. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “The Champs-Elysées, 1775,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 54. "Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 56-57, and 95, no. 23 (ill.). Suzanne Fold McCullagh, “The Development of Gabriel de Saint–Aubin,” in Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724–1780, exh. cat. (New York, 2007), p. 56, fig. 10
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
- 1779
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and gray and colored wash, with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 13.7 cm (6 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1989.197
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