About This Artwork
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780
The Genius of Paintingn.d.
Charcoal with stumping, erasing, and incising on ivory laid paper, tipped to decorated board
216 x 241 mm (image); 255 x 283 mm (mount)
Inscribed recto, lower edge, in graphite: "....duc...."; verso, upper edge, in graphite (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"
Gift of Celia and David Hilliard, 2005.558
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels, 1931), p. 21, no. 94.
Ownership History
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.