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AT-00005772Woman Seated Holding a Cat on Her Knees
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto in pen and black ink in corner of “painting” in background: illeg. / Coypel 1727
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Paris, May 20-21, 1873, lot 129 (sold for 52 francs) [according to Dacier 1931]. Henri Bernstein (1876-1953). Sold, E.V. Thaw and Compant, New York, 1 November 1983; David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 18-19, 46-47, 211, cat. 12 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin
Publications
Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels, 1931), p. 54, no. 342 (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) / with thumbnail sketch after Noël Coypel (French 1628-1707)
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Black chalk and graphite, with pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and touches of gray wash, on grayish-ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.4 × 15 cm (7 1/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
- Accession no.
- 1998.739
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