About This Artwork

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780

Allegory, 1770

Oil, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped on beige wove paper
133 x 96 mm (max.); 158 x 125 mm (mount)
Inscribed recto, lower left, in brush and black oil: "Aubin f. 177[?]"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.117

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

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.).

Publication History

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.

Ownership History

Collection David Weill, Paris; Pardo Galérie, Paris, June 1965, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, her stamp (COLLECTION / H. B. B. / CUSTODIAN; not in Lugt) verso, lower right on mount, in blue.