Profile Portrait of a Woman

ca. 1780–82

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite, red and black chalk, with touches of blue wash
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 in. × 5 1/16 in. (15.3 × 12.8 cm)(oval)
Collection no.: 2019.138.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Profile Portrait of a Woman. Augustin de Saint-Aubin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Profile Portrait of a Woman — Augustin de Saint-Aubin. ca. 1780–82.

Medium: Graphite, red and black chalk, with touches of blue wash. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 in. × 5 1/16 in. (15.3 × 12.8 cm)(oval).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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