Fountain with Dolphins | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1932.57.B
People: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1724 - 1780 Paris)
Title: Fountain with Dolphins
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297911

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 14.7 x 10.7 cm (5 13/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Maurice de Fleury. Richard Owen, Paris, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Owen
Accession Year: 1932
Object Number: 1932.57.B
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: A wall fountain decorated with two dolphins with interlaced tails.

Publication History

Émile Dacier, Édouard Girod de l'Ain, and Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Exposition des Saint-Aubin, exh. cat. (Paris, 1925), no. 206
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 636, p. 338, vol. III, fig. 319, repr.

Exhibition History

Exposition des Saint-Aubin, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 04/07/1925 - 04/29/1925

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1932.57.B: Fountain with Dolphins