Allegory

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Prints and Drawings

1770

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Title: Allegory
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1770
Medium: Oil, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped on beige wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in brush and black oil: "Aubin f. 177[?]"
Dimensions: Max: 13.3 × 9.6 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.); Mount: 15.8 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.117
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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.

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.).

Collection David Weill, Paris; Pardo Galérie, Paris, June 1965, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg.

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