Six Statues of Women Personifying the Arts
DrawingsFrench18th century

Six Statues of Women Personifying the Arts

18th century

Artists

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-AubinArtist
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Brown and gray ink and brown and gray wash with black ink and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
Culture
French
Century
18th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17.8 × 11.7 cm (7 × 4 5/8 in.) mount: 24.8 × 18.5 cm (9 3/4 × 7 5/16 in.)

Provenance

[Cailleux, Geneva (Lugt 4461)], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1984, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

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