The Genius of Painting

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n.d.

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Title: The Genius of Painting
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: Charcoal with stumping, erasing, and incising on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: verso, upper edge, in black chalk (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"
Dimensions: Image: 21.6 × 24.1 cm (8 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Mount: 25.5 × 28.3 cm (10 1/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
Reference Number: 2005.558
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Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels, 1931), p. 21, no. 94.

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. 19, 48-49, 211, cat. 13 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin

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.

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