Allegory on the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie-Antoinette in 1770
Medium
Brush and gray wash, accents in pen and brown ink, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink; margins tinted with blue-green wash.
Dimensions
8 11/16 x 6 3/4 in. (22.1 x 17.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.165.106
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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...