Les Nouvellistes
Medium
Etching, early state
Dimensions
sheet: 4 1/4 x 6 in. (10.8 x 15.2 cm) image: 3 7/8 x 5 5/8 in. (9.8 x 14.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1939
Accession Number
39.31.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Les Nouvellistes *Gabriel de Saint-Aubin 1752* Etching (early state); sheet: 4 1/4 x 6 in. (10.8 x 15.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection 1939 Step into the bustling social whirl of mid-18th-century Paris with Gabriel de Saint-Aubin'sLes Nouvellistes* (The Gossipers), a charming etching capturing two elegantly dressed figures—a man and a woman— in animated conversation amid architectural columns. Created in 1752, this intimate early-state print showcases Saint-Aubin's keen eye for everyday Parisian life, blending wit and observation in the Rococo t...
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...