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Trait héroique d'un père qui se sacrifice pour son fils
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
1767
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 14.8 x 9.5 cm (5 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.) x trimmed
Image: 12.3 x 7.9 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.) x trimmed
Image: 12.3 x 7.9 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2861
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Dacier (1931) 908 i/II; Dacier (1914) 41, Proof
DescriptionText added in pen
Illustration for Chevalier Bossu: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales, 1767, I, pg. 197
Illustration for Chevalier Bossu: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales, 1767, I, pg. 197
InscriptionsPen and ink inscription [not deciphered]
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 30, 1963)