The Shop of M.Périer, Ironwork Merchant
Medium
Etching and drypoint, reworked with pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (15.5 x 23.5 cm) image: 4 15/16 x 7 1/8 in. (12.5 x 18.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.650
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...