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Expulsion of the Jesuits

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
1761

Medium/Technique Etching, trial proof with hand additions in brush and gray wash
Dimensions Sheet: 24.1 × 28.8 cm (9 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 18 × 20.8 cm (7 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
Image: 12.9 × 20.8 cm (5 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number62.604
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Dacier (1931) 176 i/ii [or earlier]; Dacier 23, unpublished state, before 1st state
DescriptionEtching, trial proof touched with gray wash.
Marks Lower center stamped in black ink -- mark o D. Goncourt (Lugt 1089)
InscriptionsVerso lower right in graphite pencil: C31999 HEA
ProvenanceEdmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), Paris, and Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870), Paris (Lugt 1089); Alfred Hubert (d. 1908), Paris (Lugt 130); probably sold in Paris (expert A. Danlos) 25 May, 1909; by 1962, P & D Colnaghi & Co., London; 1962, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 6, 1962).