Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724–1780
A Portrait Medallion of King Louis XV Surrounded by Putti Carrying the Attributes of Fame and History
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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724–17801774
A Portrait Medallion of King Louis XV Surrounded by Putti Carrying the Attributes of Fame and History
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin French, 1724–1780 →prints and drawingpen and ink drawings
Date
1774
Medium
Graphite, with traces of pen and black ink, on parchment, tipped onto white paper, tipped on blue card
Dimensions
Primary/secondary supports: 12 × 14.6 cm (4 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.); Tertiary support: 15.5 × 19.5 cm (6 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Although Gabriel de Saint-Aubin failed in his attempts to be accepted by the Royal Academy as a history painter, he never gave up entirely his work in historical subjects, and he loved to endow political figures with ornamental relish. This drawing might have decorated a treatise; it is inscribed by the artist with the declaration “The Heart of the French (Le Coeur des Français)” and signed and dated January 11, 1774.
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