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AT-00005891The Genius of Painting
Inscriptions
verso, upper edge, in black chalk (above sketch of an angel in graphite by another hand): "qui les re... en digne neveu de...IV.g.d.S.a / ... Mr de S martin ... Rei..."; inscribed verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "Dacier no. 94: Le Genie de la Peinture presentant des portraits / au Duc d'Orléans-- / Note de la main de l'artiste en bas du dessin / Coll: Delaherche vte en mars 1888"; lower left, in graphite: "Lot 40 / 207 7419/1"
Provenance
Auguste Delaherche (1857—1940, not in Lugt), Beauvais; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 28-29, 1888 (third sale), lot 218. N. Beets, Amsterdam (not in Lugt); sold, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, April 9-11, 1940, lot 161. Celia and David Hilliard, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 2005.
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. 19, 48-49, 211, cat. 13 (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. 21, no. 94.
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
- n.d.
- Medium
- Charcoal with stumping, erasing, and incising on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.6 × 24.1 cm (8 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Mount: 25.5 × 28.3 cm (10 1/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
- Accession no.
- 2005.558
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