Lot 117
  • 117

Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin
  • study of a seated man
  • Black chalk;
    dated, in black chalk: 7 mai 1775 and bears initials in another hand: gdSa

Provenance

Baron J. Pichon, his sale, Paris, 17-21 May 1897, lot 123 (sold with lot 122);
Baron Robert de Rothschild;
Mathias Polakovits;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1991, lot 92

Exhibited

Santa Clara, California, Triton Museum of Art, From Rembrandt to Van Gogh, Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 1990, cat. no. 67

Literature

E. Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Paris 1931, vol. II, p. 62, no. 407(2)

Condition

Stuck down on mount along right edge and at corners. Some light brown stains, e.g. at right edge; middle of left edge slight mark from paper stuck on verso. Surface dirt. Chalk fresh and paper strong
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