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Theatre Scene (recto)
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
c. 1765–75
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, black crayon and pink wash on laid paper (recto)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.7 x 17 cm (8 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin was known for his distinctively sketchy style and interest in depicting performances such as dance and theater, the subjects seen here. The artist developed a distinctive composite style of sketching, and this work exemplifies his practice of covering both sides of a sheet of paper with diverse images in varying media.
