Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

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Property from the Collection of the Late Howard Hodgkin

Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin

An assembly at the concert

Lot closes

July 4, 10:47 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Starting Bid

9,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of the Late Howard Hodgkin


Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Paris 1724–1780

An assembly at the concert


oil on paper laid on card

unframed: 9.8 x 12.9 cm.; 3⅞ x 5⅛ in.

framed: 19.1 x 22.2 cm.; 7½ x 8¾ in.

Louis-Auguste Schwiter, later Baron de Schwiter (1805–1889), Paris;

His posthumous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 March 1890, lot 16, for 900 French francs;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 13 May 1927, lot 106, for 40,250 French francs;

Adolphe Niel (1879–1966) and Victoire Gasquet James (1883–1962), The Comte and Comtesse Niel, Paris;

Their sale, Paris, Christie's, 16 April 2012, lot 116, for €21,250.

E. Dacier, Gabriel de Saint Aubin, Peintre, dessinateur et graveur, 2 vols, Paris and Brussels 1929–31, vol. I, reproduced pl. VII, vol. II, p. 121, no. 694;

Galerie Cailleux, Esquisses, maquettes, projets et ébauches de l'école française du XVIIIé siècle, peintures et sculptures au profit de la société des Amis de l'Enfance, exh. cat., Paris 1934, p. 51, no. 85.

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Esquisses, maquettes, projets et ébauches de l'école française du XVIIIé siècle, peintures et sculptures au profit de la société des Amis de l'Enfance, 12–14 March 1934, no. 85.