Mother and Children

1755–1781

Medium	pen and black ink over pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 x 16 1/16 in. (30.5 x 40.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.1894
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Etienne Aubry, Mother and Children, 1755–1781, pen and black ink over pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1894

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Products of the Perfected Civilization: French Life before 1789. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1975. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Ivinski, Patricia, Harry C. Payne, Katherine Calley Galitz, and Richard Rand. Farewell to the Wet Nurse: Etienne Aubry and Images of Breast-Feeding in Eighteenth-Century France. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1998.

Provenance

Marius Paulme (L. 1910, twice; sale Paris, Georges Petit, May 13, 1929, no. 1 {illustrated});* Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.