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ID: 700000893
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000893
Record Type: Movable Work
[The four vases] (etching (print); Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French painter and printmaker, 1724-...; Published: 1754; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 933536; (OCoLC)ocn752310106; accession number: 2011.PR.26*)
Note: Also known as: Les quatre vases. Cf. Dacier; "Cabinet de M. de La.... / introducteur des ambassadeurs..."--lower left; "Courses du lor powers... 1754."--lower right. See Dacier's interpretation of this inscription in relation to Lord Powerscourt's horse run in 1754; Signed "Gabriel" at bottom of each vase; In the composition at bottom right, there are three small sketches evoking those that Saint-Aubin executed in the margins of sales catalogs and salon livrets. Publication: 1754.
Titles:
[The four vases] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)
Les quatre vases. (C,U,undetermined,,)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)
print (visual work) [300041273]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1754

Creator Display:
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French painter and printmaker, 1724-1780) [preferred,GRISC]
etcher Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (French painter and printmaker, 1724-1780) [500022865]
Locations:
Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 933536; (OCoLC)ocn752310106; accession number: 2011.PR.26*
Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections
Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w
prints (visual works) [300041273]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
etching (printing process) [300053241]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)
black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: plate mark 24.3 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 21.3 cm
General Subject:
furnishings (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
vases [300132254]
.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers)) (AAT)
ornaments (object genre) [300266794]
.....(Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), <object genres by function>) (AAT)
history (literary genre) [300026358]
.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

Provenance: martd; Purchase.
Inscriptions: Gabriel. "Cabinet de M. de La.... / introducteur des ambassadeurs..."--lower left; "Courses du lor powers... 1754."--lower right.
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
[The four vases]........ [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 933536
Les quatre vases......... [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Note:
English ..... [GRISC]
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
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