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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25812
People
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1724 - 1780 Paris)
Title
The Four Vases
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les Quatres Vases
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1754
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/92986

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching, engraving and drypoint
Dimensions
Image: 23.9 × 15.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 24 × 15.9 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: gabriel [repeated 4 times]
  • watermark: left edge at middle (viewing recto), paper: partial watermark, apparently entirely alphabetic, probably: F (or E) P L (or I) T (or I)
  • inscription: verso, bottom, near center, graphite, handwritten, Italian?: 'G de St Aubin D. 12 sen[?] dat ' [perhaps for the Italian 'senza data', or without date

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii (unrecorded)
Standard Reference Number
Dacier 881 (12); Baudicour, vol. I, no. 33, p. 121

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of David Leventhal and the Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
M25812
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Colin B. Bailey and Kim de Beaumont, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724-1780, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art and Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 2007), p. 138, fig. 2
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 32 on p. 75

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008

Verification Level

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