id: 142292 accession number: 1966.124 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.124 updated: 2025-01-17 12:22:38.958000 Costumed Dancers Performing in a Garden Tavern, 1756. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780). Brush and brown and gray wash, with gouache, watercolor, and traces of graphite; sheet: 19.8 x 31.3 cm (7 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.124 title: Costumed Dancers Performing in a Garden Tavern title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1756 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1756 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: brush and brown and gray wash, with gouache, watercolor, and traces of graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.8 x 31.3 cm (7 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper, laid down on cream(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in brown ink: 17[60?]; lower left, in graphite: G de St Aubin [partially cut off]; verso, visible through transmitted light, lower left: [aif?]; lower left: Fragonard; lower right: 22 / [illegible] / 22; verso of secondary support, center, in graphite: N translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections opening date: 1972-09-02T04:00:00 French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (September 2-October 15, 1972); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (September 2-October 15, 1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (November 3-December 17, 1972); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (April 4-May 13, 1973). title: Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780 opening date: 1975-03-07T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (March 7-April 13, 1975); The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (April 25-June 8, 1975). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin opening date: 2007-10-30T00:00:00 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (October 30, 2007-January 27, 2008). title: Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints opening date: 2015-01-25T00:00:00 Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'French Painting, 1100-1900. Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (October 18 - December 2, 1951).', 'opening_date': '1951-10-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association. Jacques Seligmann & Co, Inc., New York (April 3 - April 22, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-04-03T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE John S. Thacher [1904-1982], Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington date: ?-at least 1951 footnotes: *
Listed as owner in Tietze 1947, 216. Letter in CMA curatorial files confirms that Thacher still owned the work in 1951. Most of Thacher's collection is now in the Morgan Library, New York; see Stephanie Wiles, "The John S. Thacher Bequest," in Charles Ryskamp, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1984-1986 [New York, 1989], 311-13.
citations: Member of the Rothschild family date: ?-by 1966 footnotes: *
According to letter from Saemy Rosenberg, CMA archives.
citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Parker, K.T. "Notes on Drawings: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin." Old Master Drawings 48 (March 1938): 58. page number: Mentioned: p. 58; Reproduced: plate 60 url: The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association. Exh. Cat. New York: Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., 1939. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 7 url: Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1947. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 108 url: French Painting, 1100-1900. Exh. Cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1951. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 144 url: Cailleux, Jean. "An Unpublished Painting by Saint-Aubin: 'Le Bal champêtre." Burlington Magazine 102, no. 686 (May 1960): i-iv, page number: Mentioned: pp. iii-iv url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 139 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n163 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 43 url: "Collections et collectionneurs." La Chronique des Arts, supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1173 (October 1966): 4-6. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5 url: Richards, Louise S. "Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: Fête in a Park with Costumed Dancers." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54 (September 1967): 215-218. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 215-218 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 139 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n163 Rosenberg, Pierre. French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Translated by Catherine Johnston. Exh. Cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 208, no. 130; Reproduced: p. 87 url: Carlson, Victor, Ellen D'Oench, and Richard S. Field. Prints and Drawings by Gabriel De Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780. Exh. Cat. Middletown, CT: Davison Art Center, 1975. page number: Mentioned: pp. 76-77, no. 41; Reproduced: 87 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 183 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n203 McCullagh, Suzanne Folds. "The Development of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) as a Draughtsman." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1981. page number: Mentioned: pp. 183-185; Reproduced: no. 156 url: de Beaumont, Kim. "Reconsidering Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780): The Background for his Scenes of Paris." PhD diss., New York University, 1998. page number: Mentioned: pp. 318-319, 336 n. 326; Reproduced: p. 724 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 112-113, p. 289, no. 42; Reproduced: p. 113 url: Bailey, Colin B., Kim de Beaumont, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et al. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780). Exh. Cat. New York: Frick Collection, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 49 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.124/1966.124_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.124/1966.124_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.124/1966.124_full.tif