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