Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works25

Museum Acquisitions

Art Institute of Chicago

Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter, 1761

Acquired 2023

Graphite and pen and black ink, with touches of opaque, white watercolor on cream laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory on the Convalescence of the Dauphin, 1752

Acquired 2019

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

The Death of Germanicus, from the Spectacle de l'Histoire Romaine, 1760

Acquired 2016

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Laban Searching for his Household Gods, 1753

Acquired 2013

Etching on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegorie des Mariages Faits par la Ville de Paris a la Naissance du Duc de Bourgogne, 1751

Acquired 2013

Etching on cream laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

The Escape of M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner in the Attakapas, plate four from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales, 1767

Acquired 2013

Etching on cream laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

One Never Thinks About It At All, 1761

Acquired 2013

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece, plate one from Recueil de Poésies de Sedaine, 1757

Acquired 2013

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Messenger Sent to M. Saint-Denis, by M. Belle-Isle, Prisoner, plate three from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales, 1767

Acquired 2013

Etching on cream laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

The Dance at Auteuil, 1761

Acquired 2011

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Salon in the Louvre in the Year 1753, 1753

Acquired 2005

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

"The Anger of Neptune" Fountain, 1767

Acquired 2004

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Gallant Conversation, 1757

Acquired 2004

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Expulsion of the Jesuits, 1761

Acquired 1993

Etching, with touches of graphite on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Vignette for an Address, 1752

Acquired 1990

Etching on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Almanach Historico-Physique, 1762

Acquired 1989

Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory on the Convalescence of the Dauphin, 1752

Acquired 1987

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Almanach des Dieux pour l'année 1768 (Almanach of the Gods for the Year 1768), 1768

Acquired 1982

Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Vignettes for the "New Voyages to the West Indies" by the Chevalier Bossu, 1767

In museum collection

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Mérope, 1750

In museum collection

Etching on ivory laid paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Scenes from the Tuileries: The Chairs and the Water Cart, 1760

In museum collection

Two etchings from one plate, touched with drypoint on ivory laid paper

Previous Sales

Christie's

'L’académie particulière'

Christie's

Christie's

Une Conference des Avocats (Dacier 48)

£10,000 ($13k USD)

Dec 2013

Christie's

Spectacle de Tuileries: Le Chaises (Dacier 18)

£9,375 ($12k USD)

Dec 2013

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2023 · Accession 2023.2859 · Graphite and pen and black ink, with touches of opaque, white watercolor on cream laid paper

Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz in honor of Suzanne Folds McCullagh

Allegory on the Convalescence of the Dauphin

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2019 · Accession 2018.412 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

The Death of Germanicus, from the Spectacle de l'Histoire Romaine

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2016 · Accession 2015.719 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Gift of Ursula and R. Stanley Johnson in honor of Suzanne Folds McCullagh

Laban Searching for his Household Gods

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2016 · Accession 2016.585 · Etching

Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, in honor of Perrin Stein, 2016

Laban Searching for his Household Gods

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.678 · Etching on paper