Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
1766 · Gray wash over black chalk and graphite. · Drawings and Prints
This charming double portrait depicts the two youngest children of Charles-Germain, Saint-Aubin’s older brother. Germain-Augustin (1758-1825), on the left, was eight years old at the time and Marie-Françoise, nicknamed Rose (1755–1813), was eleven. The Saint-Aubin family was as musical as it was artistic. Rose holds a hurdy-gurdy, and both look off to the left, seemingly unaware they are being drawn by their uncle. The naturalism of their delicately delineated features is unusual in Saint-Aubin’s oeuvre and suggests an avuncular fondness.
- Artist
- Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
- Date
- 1766
- Medium
- Gray wash over black chalk and graphite.
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
