Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin|Pierre Chenu
18th century
Medium
Etching and engraving, 4th state (out of 5)
Dimensions
sheet: 11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (30 x 23 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.355
Tags
SufferingMenCrowdBoats
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...