Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Executing the Portrait of the Bishop of Chartres

1. Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué (1780–1860), Paris, by 1860; by descent to his estate, 1861; sold, his estate sale, L’Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs Rue Drouot, May 17–18, 1861, lot 85, to Hippolyte Destailleur (1822–1893), Paris [annotated catalogue notes a sale to “Det.,” likely “Destailleur”]; by descent to his estate, 1893; offered for sale, L’Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs Rue Drouot and La Librairie Damascène Morgand, May 26–27, 1893, lot 112.10, bought in; sold, Hôtel Drouot and Damascène Morgand, Paris, May 19–22, 1896, lot 863, to Brame [Dacier 1931]. Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, 12th Marquis de Biron (1859–1939), Bordeaux, France, later Geneva [Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961), p. 40]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9–11, 1914, lot 58, probably to Baron Christian de Marinitch [this and the following according to Dacier 1931]. Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957), Paris, by 1931; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, 1940 [ERR inventory no. BoR 177]; transferred to the Louvre, Dec. 19, 1940; transferred to the Jeu de Paume, May 2, 1941; transferred to Altaussee, Austria, Oct. 27, 1944 [transfer place noted as “Peter Lager,” a code name for Altaussee]; recovered by Allied forces, by June 24, 1945 [this and the following according to Munich Central Collecting Point Restitution file, Federal Archives, B323/648]; repatriated to France, Sept. 9, 1946; restituted to Maurice de Rothschild, Dec. 17, 1946 [209SUP/15 - Dossier 45.267209SUP/15 Archives diplomatiques]. Sold by Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 104-05, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-January 8, 1988.
• Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, “Theatricality in the Baroque,” January 5-April 22, 2001, p. 20, cat. 7, fig. 12.
• New York, The Frick Collection, “Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1724–1780,” October 30, 2007–May 26, 2008, pp. 55, 116, 117, and 320, cat. 4, cat. by Colin B. Bailey and Pierre Rosenberg et. al.; traveled to Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 28-May 26, 2008

• Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1931), no. 237 (ill.).
• Suzanne Folds McCullagh, The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin as a Draughtsman (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 23 (ill.).

View of the Salon in the Louvre in the Year 1753

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"The Anger of Neptune" Fountain

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Sketchbook

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Allegory

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The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre

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Four Views of a Young Woman

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Pandora

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The Promenade on the Boulevard

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