Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party

Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

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

Tags

Musical InstrumentsMenWomenParty

About the Artist

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 17241780

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...

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