AUGUSTIN DE SAINT AUBIN (1736-1807)
after Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
Engraving, c. 1780
Height 20.3,  sub height 19.5  width  14.3,  oval height 11.6, oval width 10.2 cm

Boglewood: 1217
Hart:  48

[Version III]

Source image:
Charles Willson Peale, Type B.
Oil on canvas (1776).

Version I:  As shown, but without address.
Version II:  As shown.
Version III:  As shown, but with address changed to: "Se trouve à Paris, chez Aug. De St. Aubin, Graveur du Roi et de la Bibliothéque, actuellement rue Therese Bute St. Roch, et à la Bibliothéque du Roi / et chez Mr. Cochin, aux Galleries du Louvre, A. P. D. R."  Collection:  Boglewood Collection.

Notes:  The Saint-Aubin image of Washington is derived from Charles Willson Peale's 1778 mezzotint engraving of his own 1776 portrait painting of the General (Boglewood 1216).  

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, was an engraver to King Louis XVI of France, and Charles-Nicolas Cochin was the royal printer, artist and keeper of the royal library at the Louvre. The surrounding framing and nameplate motifs are adapted by Saint-Aubin and Cochin from their own 1777 portrait engraving of Benjamin Franklin.