Artworks · Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre

1779 · Brush and black ink and gray and colored wash, with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink, on off-white laid paper

17.3 × 13.7 cm (6 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegorie op de dood van Voltaire

1778 · pen on ink, paper, watercolor (paint), graphite (mineral)

height: 198 cm, width: 130 cm

Rijksmuseum

Triomphe de Pompee dans Rome

1775 · etching on laid paper [proof]

National Gallery of Art

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Crowned by Love

1775 · red chalk, black chalk, pen and black and gray ink with watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache on laid paper

overall: 17.2 x 22.6 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Allegorie op de terugkeer in Parijs van Lodewijk XVI na zijn kroning te Reims op 11 juni 1775

1775 · pen on paper, chalk, ink

width: 120 cm, height: 80 cm

Rijksmuseum

Rendezvous in the Palais Royal

1774 · black chalk and graphite with stumping, pen and brown ink, and touches of white chalk, on laid paper

overall: 22.4 x 14.7 cm (8 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Portrait Medallion of King Louis XV Surrounded by Putti Carrying the Attributes of Fame and History

1774 · Graphite, with traces of pen and black ink, on parchment, tipped onto white paper, tipped on blue card

Primary/secondary supports: 12 × 14.6 cm (4 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.); Tertiary support: 15.5 × 19.5 cm (6 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dame laat zich een ontwerp voorleggen

1772 · pen on ink, chalk, paper

width: 175 cm, height: 112 cm

Rijksmuseum

Allegorie sur la mariage du Comte de Provence

1771 · etching, reworked with graphite and brown and black ink on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

Allegory

1770 · Oil, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped on beige wove paper

Max: 13.3 × 9.6 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.); Mount: 15.8 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.)

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Allegorical Frame with a Bat

1769 · pen and dark brown ink over graphite, red chalk, and black chalk with touches of white chalk on light brown laid paper, with partial framing line in pen and brown ink

overall: 13.9 x 8.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.) support: 15.1 x 10.6 cm (5 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Allegorical Frame with a Genius and a Veiled Woman Writing

1769 · black chalk on laid paper

overall: 14.6 x 8.3 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Executing the Portrait of the Bishop of Chartres

1768 · Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper

23.3 × 18.4 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Almanach des Dieux pour l'année 1768 (Almanach of the Gods for the Year 1768)

1768 · Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 43 × 37.2 cm (16 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 45.9 × 39.1 cm (18 1/8 × 15 7/16 in.)

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La Colère de Neptune (The Wrath of Neptune)

1767 · etching on laid paper

plate: 10.7 × 8 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.) sheet: 11.9 × 9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Flight of M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner with theAttakapas [right]

1767 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

Envoy to M. de Saint-Denis by M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner [left]

1767 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

Heroic Act of a Father Who Sacrifices for His Son (Trait heroique d'un pere qui se sacrifie pour son fils)

1767 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

"The Anger of Neptune" Fountain

1767 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image/plate: 10.7 × 8 cm (4 1/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 11 × 8.2 cm (4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pandora

1767 · Pen and brown ink, and black and red chalk, with brush and watercolor, on ivory laid paper

19 × 13 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)

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Vignettes for the "New Voyages to the West Indies" by the Chevalier Bossu

1767 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Each image: 12.4 × 7.8 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Plate: 16 × 19 cm (6 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 20.5 × 23.4 cm (8 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

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The Escape of M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner in the Attakapas, plate four from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales

1767 · Etching on cream laid paper

12.1 × 7.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Messenger Sent to M. Saint-Denis, by M. Belle-Isle, Prisoner, plate three from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales

1767 · Etching on cream laid paper

13.7 × 9.3 cm (5 7/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Allégorie sur l'Erection de la Statue de Louis XV (Allegory on the Establishment of a Statue of Louis XV)

1763 · etching with traces of roulette and engraving on laid paper

plate: 31.7 × 23.7 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 32.3 × 24.4 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Allégorie sur l'Erection de la Statue de Louis XV (Allegory on the Establishment of a Statue of Louis XV)

1763 · etching on laid paper

plate: 31.8 × 23.7 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 33.1 × 25 cm (13 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.) mount: 42.3 × 29.8 cm (16 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

On ne s'avise jamais de tout

1762 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.2 × 9.1 cm (6 3/8 × 3 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Le tonneau d'arrosage [upper half]

1762 · etching, retouched with drypoint on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

Natuurhistorisch kabinet

1762 · etching on paper

width: 56 cm, height: 100 cm

Rijksmuseum

Frontispiece for Almanach Historico-Physique

1762 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Plate: 9.7 × 5.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 3/16 in.); Sheet: 11.3 × 8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Expulsion of the Jesuits (Expulsion des Jesuites)

1761 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 17.8 × 20.7 cm (7 × 8 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Expulsion des Jésuites

1761 · etching on paper

height: 178 cm, width: 207 cm

Rijksmuseum

Expulsion of the Jesuits

1761 · Etching, with touches of graphite on ivory laid paper

Sheet, max.; cut within platemark: 17.9 × 10.9 cm (7 1/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter

1761 · Graphite and pen and black ink, with touches of opaque, white watercolor on cream laid paper

12.5 × 7.9 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Dance at Auteuil

1761 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Image: 13.2 × 7.9 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.); Plate: 14 × 8.3 cm (5 9/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Sheet: 15.2 × 9.3 cm (6 × 3 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

One Never Thinks About It At All

1761 · Etching on ivory laid paper

12.4 × 8.2 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Royal Review of the Troops

1760 · graphite and black chalk, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash and watercolor on laid paper

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

National Gallery of Art

Draftsmen Outdoors

1760 · black chalk and stumping on laid paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.9 cm (6 5/8 x 9 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Death of Tancred [left]

1760 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

The Challenge [right]

1760 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

The Death of Tancred

1760 · etching on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

The Charlatan (Le charlatan)

1760 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 8 × 10.8 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Les chaises [lower half]

1760 · etching, retouched with drypoint on laid paper

National Gallery of Art

The Death of Germanicus, from the Spectacle de l'Histoire Romaine

1760 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Image: 21.2 × 16.2 cm (8 3/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 18.5 cm (10 1/8 × 7 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Scenes from the Tuileries: The Chairs and the Water Cart

1760 · Two etchings from one plate, touched with drypoint on ivory laid paper

Images: 19.5 × 19.3 cm (7 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 19.5 cm (8 3/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 21.4 × 20.5 cm (8 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Le Scélérat Damiens

1757 · etching on laid paper

image: 14.7 × 12.8 cm (5 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.) plate: 16.8 × 13.5 cm (6 5/8 × 5 5/16 in.) sheet: 18.5 × 14.6 cm (7 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Gallant Conversation

1757 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image/plate/sheet: 10 × 11.7 cm (3 15/16 × 4 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece, plate one from Recueil de Poésies de Sedaine

1757 · Etching on ivory laid paper

16.3 × 9.3 cm (6 7/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Promenade on the Boulevard

1755 · Black chalk, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper

15.1 × 22.9 cm (6 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago