L'Escalier (The Curving Stair)
1778–79
Medium
Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, watercolor, and touches of gouache, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (18.7 x 12.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2004
Accession Number
2004.475.5
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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...