Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
1724-1780
The Lesson of the Chemist Sage at the Hôtel des Monnaies
1779
7 7/8 x 5 1/16 inches (198 x 128 mm)
Black chalk with stumping, graphite, brown ink, gray wash, and opaque watercolor, on paper.
1991.4
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
Notes
Watermark: fragment of crown.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, at lower margin, "par Gabriel St Aubin 1779"; in graphite, "La leçon de M. Sage a l'hotel de la Monaye".
Associated names
Doucet, Jacques, 1853-1929, former owner.
Pardinel, G., former owner.
Coty, François, 1874-1934, former owner.
Kress, Samuel, former owner.
Kilvert, Mrs., former owner.
Cory de Ayala, Audrey, former owner.
Smith, Robert H., former owner.
Smith, Mrs., former owner.
Pardinel, G., former owner.
Coty, François, 1874-1934, former owner.
Kress, Samuel, former owner.
Kilvert, Mrs., former owner.
Cory de Ayala, Audrey, former owner.
Smith, Robert H., former owner.
Smith, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no.64, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 12, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 12, repr.
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Century Drawings
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