Woman Seated Holding a Cat on Her Knees

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724-1780)
with thumbnail sketch after Noël Coypel (French 1628-1707)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Title: Woman Seated Holding a Cat on Her Knees
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.: Artist's working dates 1744–1780
Medium: Black chalk and graphite, with pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and touches of gray wash, on grayish-ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto in pen and black ink in corner of “painting” in background: illeg. / Coypel 1727
Dimensions: 18.4 × 15 cm (7 1/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
Reference Number: 1998.739
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Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels, 1931), p. 54, no. 342 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection”, October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 18-19, 46-47, 211, cat. 12 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin

Anonymous sale, Paris, May 20-21, 1873, lot 129 (sold for 52 francs) [according to Dacier 1931]. Henri Bernstein (1876-1953). Sold, E.V. Thaw and Compant, New York, 1 November 1983; David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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