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The Promenade on the Boulevard
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724-1780)
c. 1760
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 15.1 × 22.9 cm (6 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
