Details
GABRIEL DE SAINT-AUBIN* (1724-1780)
A Portrait of the Comte d'Artois holding the infant Duc d'Angouleme
signed with initials in the border below, dated and inscribed 'pour le duc d'angouleme, ne le 6 aoust 1775 a d s a 1776'
black chalk, with touches of pen and grey ink
6 3/8 x 4 1/8in. (161 x 104mm.)
A Portrait of the Comte d'Artois holding the infant Duc d'Angouleme
signed with initials in the border below, dated and inscribed 'pour le duc d'angouleme, ne le 6 aoust 1775 a d s a 1776'
black chalk, with touches of pen and grey ink
6 3/8 x 4 1/8in. (161 x 104mm.)
Provenance
H. Destailleur
Marquis de Biron
Fradin, Paris
A. Ananoff (his collector's stamp lower right)
Marquis de Biron
Fradin, Paris
A. Ananoff (his collector's stamp lower right)
Literature
E. and J. de Goncourt, L'Art du XVIIIe siecle, Paris, 1881, p.428 E. Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Paris, 1931, II, p.35, no.190
A. Ananoff, 'Le dessin ancien regarde de pres' Connaissance des Arts, no.161, July 1965, p.86, ill.
A. Ananoff, 'Le dessin ancien regarde de pres' Connaissance des Arts, no.161, July 1965, p.86, ill.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernier, Le Dessin francais du XVIIIe siecle