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AT-00005746Allegory
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in brush and black oil: "Aubin f. 177[?]"
Provenance
Collection David Weill, Paris; Pardo Galérie, Paris, June 1965, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg.
Exhibition history
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Old Master Drawings, Jan. 14–Apr. 15, 1971. AIC, Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 32. The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 58, cat. 31 (ill.).
Publications
Emile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur (Paris, 1931), p. 27, no. 129, pl. VII. G. Henriot, Collection David Weill 3 (Paris, 1928), pp. 475–77. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Major Drawings by a Petit Maître,” Master Drawings 39:3 (Fall 2001), pp. 279–98, 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
- 1770
- Medium
- Oil, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped on beige wove paper
- Dimensions
- Max: 13.3 × 9.6 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.); Mount: 15.8 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- oil on paper
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.117
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