Artist: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736 – 1807)
Title: A society of men and women looking at prints and paintings. Frontispiece for Catalogue raisonné de Tableaux, Dessins et Estampes … qui composent différens cabinets, Paris, Didot, 1757
Date: 1757
School: French, XVIIIth century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 145 x 88mm, small margins
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower left <<augus.de St aubin inv. et sculp. 1757>>; on the support lower left collector’s mark of François Heugel (1922-2010) Parisian music editor (Lugt 3373); on verso in pencil <<Augustin de St Aubin (B546)>>
Condition: Fine impression of the second of two states, nicely framed and glazed. Used as the frontispiece for the auction catalogue by Pierre Rémy for the sale that included the Heineken collection.
Reference: Bocher 546 ii/ii
Provenance: Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, L’Univers de l’artiste 2021, 77
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