Black etching of an allegorical scene: clouds and figures above, a cloaked man and crowd at lower left, two women by columns at right, French caption below.

Allegory on the Convalescence of the Dauphin

An etching in black ink shows a dramatic cloud-filled sky above a classical colonnaded setting, with figures and a robed woman with raised arm among the clouds. At lower left a crowd gathers beside a cloaked standing man, while two women stand at right near a balustrade; French caption text runs beneath.

Artist: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Date: 1752
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1429 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1752).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

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