Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780
The Promenade on the Boulevard
INV-1995
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
French, 1724-1780c. 1760
The Promenade on the Boulevard
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin French, 1724-1780 →prints and drawinggouache
Date
c. 1760
Medium
Black chalk, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
15.1 × 22.9 cm (6 × 9 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Regenstein Endowment Fund
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin is prized today for his evocation of 18th-century Parisian society. This glimpse of personnages de qualité (as the work was once titled) relates to one of the very few paintings known by him and captures fashionable life around 1760. The black chalk underdrawing includes ruled lines mapping the perspective of the boulevard, reflecting the artist’s role as a professor in an architecture academy.
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