Coronation Regalia Carried in Procession at Saint-Denis
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk.
Dimensions
2 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (5.2 x 10.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jacob Bean Gift, 1984
Accession Number
1984.384
Tags
CrossCeremonyHuman Figures
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...