Figures in the Portico of Sainte-Geneviève le Panthéon, Paris
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
1776–79
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
7 1/8 x 6 in. (18.1 x 15.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number
59.23.73
Tags
ColumnsHuman 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...