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Prints and Drawings
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French, 1724–1780
Les deux amants (The Two Lovers)
1750
Etching
platemark: 11.4 × 12 cm (4 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.); sheet: 13.8 × 14.3 cm (5 7/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
Gift of Judith L. Pillsbury and Henry A. Pillsbury, B.A. 1958, M.A. 1960, in memory of Georges May
2011.170.1
Geography:
Made in France
Status:
By appointment
Culture:
French
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Bibliography:
E´mile Dacier, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Notice Historique et Catalogue Raisonné (Paris: La société pour l’étude de la gravure française, 1894), 49, no. 3.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 233, pl. 221.
“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2012.pdf (accessed December 21, 2012).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
