Allegorie des mariages faits par la Ville de Paris a la naissance du Duc de Bourgogne
Medium
Etching, between second and third states
Dimensions
sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. (19.7 x 15.5 cm) image: 6 9/16 x 4 13/16 in. (16.7 x 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977
Accession Number
1977.530.1
Tags
About the Artist
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1724–1780
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) was one of the most vivid and irrepressible graphic artists of eighteenth-century France, a tireless draughtsman whose sketchbooks and prints constitute an extraordinary visual chronicle of Parisian life during the Ancien Régime. Born into a family with strong connections to the decorative arts — his father was an embroiderer to the king — Saint-Aubin received fo...