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L'Entretien Galant
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
1760
Medium/Technique
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Dimensions
Sight: 20 x 13.1cm (7 7/8 x 5 3/16in.)
Frame: 38.7 x 29.8 cm (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Frame: 38.7 x 29.8 cm (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2604
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower left: G d. S.A.
Lower left, below image (in Saint-Aubin's hand): Vieux débauché, mon converti / tu crois séduire cette belle; / mais depuis longtemps la donzelle / Sur l'honneur a pris son parti.
Lower left, below image (in Saint-Aubin's hand): Vieux débauché, mon converti / tu crois séduire cette belle; / mais depuis longtemps la donzelle / Sur l'honneur a pris son parti.
ProvenanceMay 20-21,1873, anonymous sale, Paris, lot 123. 1898, Antoine François Marmontel (b. 1816 - d. 1898), Paris; March 28-29, 1898, Marmontel sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 57, sold for 1700 fr. By 1913, David David-Weill (b. 1871 - d. 1952), Paris; sold by David-Weill to Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York [see note 1]. March 23, 1945, sold by Jacques Helft and Co., New York to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTES:
[1] See "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News February 27, 1937, pp. 12, 20. The watercolor was included in the exhibition "French XVIII Century Pastels, Water Colors, and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection" (Wildenstein and Co., New York, November-December, 1938), no. 42.
NOTES:
[1] See "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News February 27, 1937, pp. 12, 20. The watercolor was included in the exhibition "French XVIII Century Pastels, Water Colors, and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection" (Wildenstein and Co., New York, November-December, 1938), no. 42.