Masterpiece Quiz

Answer:

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780)
"The Lesson of the Chemist Sage at the Hotel des Monnaies"
Black chalk with stumping, graphite, point of brush and brown ink, brush and gray wash, gouache on paper
7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches (19.8 x 13 cm)
signed and dated in black ink, lower edge, "par Gabriel de St. Aubin 1779"
The Pierpont Morgan Library New York
Exhibition: "Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections"
The Metropolitian Museum of Art, 1999

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