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Exhibition Image Gallery: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780)

Traveling October 30, 2007-May 26, 2008 to New York City and Paris

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Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) is the first major retrospective devoted to this artist in more than 80 years. It is also the result of many years of new research on Saint-Aubin, and a collaborative first for The Frick Collection, New York (on view October 30, 2007-January 27, 2008) and the Musée du Louvre, Paris (February 27–May 26, 2008). Here we have a representative sampling of the artist's large output of small-scale drawings and paintings that so delightfully chronicled work, life, love and entertainment as it existed in Paris during the French Enlightenment.

To read the full review by Beth Gersh-Nesic, please see Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780).

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© The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; used with permissionMomus, 1752© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; used with permissionThe Flirtatious Conversation, 1760© The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg; used with permissionSociety Promenade, 1760© National Gallery, London; used with permissionA Street Show in Paris, 1760
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; used with permissionLully's Opera "Armide" Performed at the Palais-Royal, 1761© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; used with permissionThe Triumph of Pompey 61 BC, 1763© Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Arts Graphiques; used with permissionThe "Salon du Louvre" in 1765, 1765© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; used with permissionGermain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle, 1766
© Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Arts Graphiques; used with permissionSheet of Studies: Castel's Clock, Various Portraits and Carved Group, 1773© Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Paris; used with permissionVoltaire's "Coronation" at the Thèâtre Français on March 30, 1778, 1778© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; used with permissionAllegory in Honor of the Death of Voltaire, ca. 1779

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