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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.200
People
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1724 - 1780 Paris)
Title
Six Statues of Women Personifying the Arts
Other Titles
Former Title: Six studies of women personifying the arts
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364468

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and gray ink and brown and gray wash with black ink and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
Dimensions
17.8 × 11.7 cm (7 × 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 24.8 × 18.5 cm (9 3/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Signed, recto, bottom center, in black ink: g d s
  • collector's mark: Recto, lower right, black ink stamp: C..x [encircled] (Lugt 4461, mark of Jean de Cayeux de Sénarpoint and Galerie Cailleux, Paris)
  • inscription: Verso, center, brown ink: Adam

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Cailleux, Geneva (Lugt 4461)], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1984, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Victor I. Carlson
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.200
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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