Scene in the Tuileries: The Watering Cart
Medium
Etching, second state
Dimensions
sheet: 4 x 7 7/8 in. (10.2 x 20 cm) image: 3 11/16 x 7 9/16 in. (9.4 x 19.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.21.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
SculptureMenTreesCarriagesChairs
About the Artist
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1724–1780
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...