The Instructive and Appetizing Meal: Voltaire and Three Dinner Companions(?)
DrawingsFrench18th century

The Instructive and Appetizing Meal: Voltaire and Three Dinner Companions(?)

1778

Artists

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-AubinArtist
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Black and brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in gray and brown ink
Culture
French
Century
18th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

18.5 x 15.2 cm (7 5/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Georges Mühlbacher, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-15 May 1907, lot 112; Madame Salvator Mayer, Paris; David David-Weill, Paris (by 1928); Charles E. Dunlap, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1955.189

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