The Expulsion of the Jesuits (Double sided drawing, preparatory drawings II and III for the etching)
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
(French, 1724–1780)
mid-18th century
Medium/TechniqueII (Recto)- graphite pencil, pen and ink
III (Verso) - pen, brush and gray wash over graphite
DimensionsSheet: 18.1 x 21.27 cm (7 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit LineEdwin E. Jack Fund
Accession number61.615
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
Collections
ProvenanceSold London, Sotheby's, 17 February 1960, lot 37; Heinrich Eisemann (1890-1972, Frankfurt and London); from whom purchased by MFA, 7 June 1961.
Unidentified artist, Flemish, 17th century
17th century
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
mid-18th century
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
late 17th century
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
about 1726
Alvan Fisher
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1912 (recto); about 1920 (verso)
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century