DrawingsFrench18th century

Humiliation of Vitellius

1766

Artists

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-AubinArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and red chalk with touches of black-ink wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

21.8 x 16.8 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur, Paris (without his marks, L.740 or L.1303); his sale, Drouot (Delestre), Paris, 26-27 May 1893, part of lot 112, sold; to J. Bouillon; Jules Gerbeau, Paris (without his marks, L.1165 or L.1166); his estate sale, Drouot (Bizouard and Baudoin), Paris, 18 May 1908, lot 120, sold; to Jules Féral, Paris; David E. Rust, Washington, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David E. Rust, inv. no. 1982.107

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