Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780)

An officer pausing on steps,  his hands in a muff

Black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown wash

6 ¾ X 5 inches  (17 X 12.8 cm)

Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin studied at the  Académie  with François Boucher (1703-1770).  He was a prodigious draughtsman and engraver who chronicled the daily life of Paris.  The small drawings he made in the margins of auction catalogs and copies of the Salons catalogs leave us with an invaluable record of the art of his time.