Scene in the Tuileries: The Watering Cart
Medium
Etching, second state
Dimensions
sheet: 4 x 7 7/8 in. (10.2 x 20 cm) image: 3 11/16 x 7 9/16 in. (9.4 x 19.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.21.2
Tags
SculptureMenTreesCarriagesChairs
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...