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AT-00006228Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and black ink: “Le Jardinier et son Seigneur (Sedaine) / Gabriel de St. ["t" in superscript] Aubin del. 1761”
Provenance
Jacques-Victor, Comte de la Béraudière (1808–1884), Paris [his sale (Delestre et Chevallier), Paris, April 16–17, 1883, lot 250 (unsold)]; his estate sale, Hôtel Béreaudière (Escribe et Chevallier), Paris, May 18–30, 1885, lot 176 to Henri Lacroix (died 1893), Paris [according to Dacier 1931]; Gustave Mühlbacher (died 1906), Paris [without his mark (Lugt 1180); Lugt states that Mühlbacher acquired most of his collection from Lacroix]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit (Chevallier), Paris, May 15–18, 1899, lot 251. Sigismond Bardac (1856–1919), Paris. Marius Paulme (1863–1928), Paris, by 1925 [stamped (Lugt 1910), lower left, in black; Paris 1925]; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris May 13–14, 1929, lot 236. Albert Meyer, Paris, by 1931 [Dacier 1931]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 15, 1938, lot 43, probably to Germain Seligman (1893–1978), New York [without his mark (Lugt 3863); according to annotated auction catalogue; copy in curatorial object file]. Richard (Ricardo) Pénard y Fernandez (1882–1960), Paris. British Rail Pension Fund, London. Rosenberg & Stiebel Gallery, New York, by 1975 [Middletown 1975]. Artemis, London, by 1990. Sold, Drouot (PIASA), Paris, Nov. 20, 2001, lot 99, to Jeffrey E. Horvitz; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition des Saint-Aubin, 1925, cat. 34, p. 43. Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Exposition des Arts au Théatre, 1925, cat. 87, p. 37. Middletown, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780, Mar. 7–Apr. 13, 1975, cat. 44, pp. 78–79; traveled to The Baltimore Museum of Art, Apr. 25– June 8, 1975. London, Artemis, Master Prints and Drawings: 15th to 20th Centuries, 1990, cat. 29. Paris, Petit Palais, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, 2017, cat. A.892, p. 625. Jacksonville, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Imaging Text: French Drawings for Book Illustration from The Horvitz Collection, May–June 2018, cat. 61, p. 11 and 69; traveled to Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sept.–Dec. 2018; and the Fairfield University Art Museum, Jan.–Mar. 2019.
Publications
Émile Dacier, L'OEuvre gravé de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1914), p. 148. Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724–1780) (Paris: Éditions G. Van Oest, 1931), vol. 2, no. 899, p. 165. Seymour de Ricci, Dessins du dix-huitième siècle: Collection Albert Meyer (Paris: Jean A. Seligmann, 1935), no. 87, n.p. (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
- 1761
- Medium
- Graphite and pen and black ink, with touches of opaque, white watercolor on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 × 7.9 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz in honor of Suzanne Folds McCullagh
- Accession no.
- 2023.2859
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