Inauguration de la statue equestre de Louis XV
Medium
Etching, third state
Dimensions
sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 5/16 in. (21.3 x 13.5 cm) image: 7 1/16 x 4 7/16 in. (18 x 11.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1987
Accession Number
1987.1044.3
Tags
About the Artist
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin|Pierre Chenu · 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...