Master Paintings and Drawings

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Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Study of a seated man reading, with a cat on his lap

No reserve

No Reserves

Lot Closed

October 22, 04:53 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin

1724 - 1780

Study of a seated man reading, with a cat on his lap

Black chalk;

bears the remains of an old attribution, lower left: S^t Aubin

171 by 107 mm; 6¾ by 4¼ in.

Jean Dubois, Paris;
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 7 May 1901, lot 39;
Dr. Paul Oulmont, Paris;
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London;
Leon Levy, New York;
Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York,
his sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 5-9 June 1979, lot 83,
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH

E. Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur, Paris and Brussels 1931, vol. II, p. 62, no. 407 (4);
M. Sharp Young, "Art Across North America: Outstanding Exhibitions", Apollo, December 1975, p. 469, fig. 1, reproduced

Middletown, Conn., Wesleyn University and Baltimore, Md., Baltimore Museum of Art, Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780, 1975, p. 97, no. 59, reproduced