Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

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Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin (born April 14, 1724 in Paris , † February 9, 1780 there ) was a French painter , draftsman and engraver .

La Parade du Boulevard, around 1760, London, National Gallery

He was the third of seven children of a knitter. At the age of 23 he taught at the art school of Jacques-Francois Blondel and learned at the painting school of the Academy of Arts with Étienne Jeaurat . He was also a student of François Boucher . He became a teacher at the Académie de Saint-Luc and exhibited there with others in 1774. Even after the school closed a few years later, he remained connected to the school's painters in joint exhibitions.

He painted folk scenes and provides insights into artistic and social life in Paris in the 18th century, for example in various pictures in the salons (painting exhibitions) of the Louvre. He painted in oils and watercolors and also in a special mixed technique of both.

gallery

  • The Tuileries

  • Dance in the Country, 1760/62, Getty Center

  • Salon from 1753

  • Scene from Armide von Lully in the theater

  • Salon from 1779, Louvre

  • Salon from 1765, Louvre

  • Outing of a Society 1760/61, Hermitage

literature

  • J.-C. Lemagny, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin , Kindlers Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
  • E. Dacier Gabriel de Saint-Aubin , 2 volumes, Paris 1929, 1931
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Aubin, Gabriel-Jacques de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1780
Place of death Paris