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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
1724-1780
Allegory of the Birth of the Duc de Bourgogne
1751
Pen and brown ink, brown and red wash, over black chalk, on paper.
5 5/16 x 6 13/18 inches (135 x 172 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon.
1974.15
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Related to Saint-Aubin's etching "Allégorie des Mariages faits par la Ville de Paris á la Naissance de Meur le Duc de Bourgogne".
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Watermark: Grapes descending from cartouche with letters "BA"? inside (fragment).
Provenance:
Jean-François Gigoux (Lugt 1164); his sale, Paris, 19 January 1873, lot 261; Camille Groult (1832-1908), Paris; his sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 21 March 1958, lot 167; John S. Newberry, New York; C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf.
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Gigoux, Jean François, 1806-1894, former owner.
Groult, Camille, 1832-1908, former owner.
Newberry, John S. (John Stoughton), 1910-1964, former owner.
Salomon, Richard, donor.
Salomon, Richard, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 179-180.
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