About This Artwork
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780
Four Views of a Young Womanc. 1764
Graphite and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, hinged on cream laid paper
167 x 221 mm
Gift of David Adler, 1944.592
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French 18th Century Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," November-December 1938, cat. 148.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French Pastels and Drawings from Clouet to Degas," 1944.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 24, cat. 49, pl. V, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings in American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," 1958-1959, cat. 78.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 53.
Middletown, Conn., Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, "Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724-1780," March 7-April 25, 1975, p. 79, cat. 45 (ill.), cat. by Victor Carlson, Ellen D'Oench and Richard S. Field; traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 8, 1975.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 60-61, cat. 51 (ill.).
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 14 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 38-39, cat. 14 (ill.).
Publication History
Édmond and Jules de Goncourt, L'art du dix-huitième siècle, vol. 1 (Paris, 1880), p. 436.
Gabriel Henriot, Collection David Weill: Dessins, vol. 3 (Paris, 1928), p. 447.
Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint Aubin, vol. 2 (Paris, 1929), no. 389.
François Boucher and Philippe Jaccottet, Le dessin français au dix-huitième siècle (Lausanne, 1952), p. 178, pl. 72.
Marianne Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744-1818 (Paris, 1970), pp. 15-16, (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Developemnt of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) as a Draughtsman, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1981), p. 227, fig. 218.
Ownership History
Hippolyte Destailleur, Paris; sold, May 19-23, 1896, lot 869 to J. Bouillon for 565 fr. [according to Dacier 1929]. Baron Jerome Pichon, Paris; sold, May 17-21, 1897, lot 139 [according to Dacier 1929]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), by 1928-at least 1938 [Henriot 1928; New York 1938]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.