The Expulsion of the Jesuits
Medium
Etching, first state
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 3/16 in. (14 x 20.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; and Phyllis Dearborn Massar Gift, 2002
Accession Number
2002.11
Tags
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...