Royal Review of the Troops, 1760s

Not on View

Medium

graphite and black chalk, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash and watercolor on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 31.1 x 46.7 cm (12 1/4 x 18 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.24

Artists / Makers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1724 - 1780

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, upper left in graphite: le roy / Monseigneur le comte d'Artois / Monseigneur de (not deciphered)

Provenance

Edouard Kann. Private collection (sale, London, 22 March 1923, no. 5). (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin
Laughlin, Irwin Boyle, The Hon.
Laughlin, Therese Iselin

Exhibition History

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 21.

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

Bibliography

1929: Dacier, Emile. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724-1780). 2 vols. Paris, 1929 and 1931: 2: no. 639, p. 113.