The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre

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1779

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780

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Artist: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Title: The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre
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.: 1779
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray and colored wash, with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 17.3 × 13.7 cm (6 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1989.197
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Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur, 2 vols. (Paris, 1929-1931), no. 439, pl. XV.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) as a Draughtsman, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2 vols, 1981, 1:310 and 348, no. 104.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, ” ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 11-12.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “The Champs-Elysées, 1775,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 54.
“Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 56-57, and 95, no. 23 (ill.).
Suzanne Fold McCullagh, “The Development of Gabriel de Saint–Aubin,” in Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724–1780, exh. cat. (New York, 2007), p. 56, fig. 10

The Art Institute of Chicago, “New Acquisitions: Old Masters of the 15th-18th Centuries, 2 December 1989-8 June 1990.
New York, The Frick Collection, “From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 30; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

Adrien Moreau-Néret, by 1931 [Dacier 1931]. Somerville and Simpson, London, c. 1979 [Folds McCullagh 1981]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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