Le Blessé
Medium
Bound print
Classification
Bound print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number
1921-6-402-2
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Le Blessé** (*The Wounded*), a bound print created by French artist Charles-Germain de Saint-A between 1753 and1757, captures the elegance of mid-18th-century Roc artistry. Saint-Aubin, a prolificaver and illustrator from a renowned family of artists (1721–6), specialized in delicate line work and whimsical vignettes that adorned books, albums, and decorative prints. This piece, now housed in the Smithsonian American Museum's Smithsonian Collection, the era's fascination with narrative scenes, likely depicting a poignant moment of injury amid the theatrical or martial themes popular in Enlig...