About This Artwork

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Executing the Portrait of the Bishop of Chartres, 1768

Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper
233 x 184 mm
Signed and dated, recto, lower center right, in pen and brown ink
Worcester Sketch Fund, and gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Friedman, Mrs. Charles Folds, and Mrs. George B. Young, 1981.152

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 104-05, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-January 8, 1988.

Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, “Theatricality in the Baroque,” January 5-April 22, 2001, p. 20, cat. 7, fig. 12.

From The Frick Collection, New York, NY: "GABRIEL DE SAINT-AUBIN," shown at The Frick Collection, New York, NY, from October 16, 2007-January 27, 2008.

New York, The Frick Collection, “Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724–1780,” October 30, 2007–May 26, 2008, pp. 55, 116, 117, and 320, cat. 4, cat. by Colin B. Bailey and Pierre Rosenberg et. al.; traveled to Musée du Luvre, Paris, February 28-May 26, 2008

Publication History

Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1931), no. 237 (ill.).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin as a Draughtsman (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 23 (ill.).

Ownership History

Montmerque, Paris; sold, May 17-18, 1861, lot 85. Hippolyte Destailleur, Paris, to May 1893. Sold, Morgand, Paris, May 19-22, 1896, lot 863, to Brame [Dacier 1931]. Marquis de Biron, Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9-11, 1914, lot 58, to Marinitch [Dacier 1931]. Baron Maurice de Rothschild (died 1957), Paris, by 1931 [Dacier 1931]. Sold by Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute, 1981.