Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party
18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache.
Dimensions
7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in. (20.2 x 26 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus, in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, 1977
Accession Number
1978.12.2
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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...