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Title:Sheet of Studies
Artist:Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724–1780 Paris)
Date:1776
Medium:Black chalk, pen and black ink, touches of colored washes
Dimensions:Sheet: 7 11/16 in. × 6 in. (19.5 × 15.3 cm) Frame: 11 7/8 × 10 in. (30.2 × 25.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Promised Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, in memory of his parents, Howard W. Geiger and Mildred K. Geiger, and in honor of his brother, Julian R. Geiger
Inscription: Along upper margin in black chalk, “a la Compagnie des indes 28. 7bre 1776 [illegible] [Composition?] de la salle de la loterie 16 Xbre. 11 heures,” at center right, on building in black chalk, “hotel de montesson / chaussée d’Antin / chassis / marbre.,” and just below, “un Suisse a nommé cet figure le gros [sic] madame,” at lower left in pen and black ink, “pour / l’operateur / barri,” and below, in black chalk, “chés m le tellier / l’avocat charvai me doit 48 / en 1777," and in pen and brown ink, "élie [?] de mr dubois,” at lower right, on base of column, in pen and brown ink, “8 7e 1776,” and on base of balustrade in black chalk, “Escalier du concert spirituel au tuillerie[s],” at lower left in black chalk “G d S A 1776” [in reverse].
Hippolyte Destailleur; his sale, Paris, May 26-27, 1893 (no. 24 of lot 112); Hippolyte Destailleur, his sale, Paris, May 19-23 (lot 883; purchased by M. Thevenin); Marcel Thévenin (French); his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 28, 1906 (lot 42);; Adrien Fauchier-Magnan; his sale, Sotheby's, London, December 4, 1935 (lot 50); Lucien Guiraud, in 1935;; André Weil, in 1936;; Wildenstein & Co., Inc., in 1936; acquired from the gallery by Stephen A. Geiger
Edmond de Goncourt L'art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols., 3rd edition. Paris, 1880–1882, vol.I, p.435.
Emile Dacier Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724-1780). 2 vols., Paris and Brussels, 1929-1931, cat. no. 1080, I, 132.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc. Timeless Master Drawings.. New York, Nov-Dec 1955, cat. no. 101.
Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London La Douceur de Vivre Art, Style and Decoration in XVIIIe Century France. London, 1983, 62.
Kim de Beaumont, Colin B. Bailey, Perrin Stein, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Christophe Leribault, Pierre Rosenberg, Marie-Catherine Sahut Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780. Exh. cat. Frick Collection, New York, Oct. 30, 2007-Jan. 27, 2008, and at Musée du Louvre, Paris, Feb. 28-May 26, 2008. New York, 2007, cat. no. 77 (entry by Kim de Beaumont), 288-90, ill.
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