Elevation of the Amphitheatre and Entrance Gate of the Collège des Chirugies, Paris
Medium
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray and pink wash, over graphite. Verso rubbed with red chalk. Lightly incised. Framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions
14 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (37.2 x 21.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970
Accession Number
1970.736.26
Tags
About the Artist
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin|Jacques François Blondel · 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...