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Quinault and Lully's opera "Armide" Performed at the Palais-Royal Opera House
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
1761
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink, transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
Framed: 48.3 x 67.3 cm (19 x 26 1/2 in.)
Sight: 30 × 50 cm (11 13/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Framed: 48.3 x 67.3 cm (19 x 26 1/2 in.)
Sight: 30 × 50 cm (11 13/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Paine Card, in memory of her father, Robert Treat Paine 2nd
Accession Number1970.36
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsSee inscription with date of 1747. This date corresponds to an earlier production of Armide
ProvenanceBy 1797, Paul I, Emperor of Russia (b. 1754 - d. 1801), The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Lugt 2061) [see note 1]; deaccessioned by the Hermitage; May 4, 1932, Hermitage collection sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 120, sold for M 37,000 to W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), probably for Robert Treat Paine, 2nd (b. 1861 - d. 1943), Brookline, MA [see note 2]; by descent to his daughter, Elizabeth Paine Card (b. 1896 - d. 1992), Fairhaven, MA; 1970, gift of Elizabeth Paine Card to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 14, 1970)
NOTES: [1] Inventoried in 1797 and marked with Paul's stamp. [2] The buyer's name is recorded in Kunst und Künstler 31 (1932), p. 232; Allen was buying for an American private collector friend. Robert Treat Paine lent the watercolor to the exhibition "French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1934.
NOTES: [1] Inventoried in 1797 and marked with Paul's stamp. [2] The buyer's name is recorded in Kunst und Künstler 31 (1932), p. 232; Allen was buying for an American private collector friend. Robert Treat Paine lent the watercolor to the exhibition "French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1934.