L'Escalier (The Curving Stair), 1778–79, Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, watercolor, and touches of gouache, on off-white laid paper, Sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (18.7 x 12.4 cm), Drawings, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724–1780 Paris), Admired for his impromptu sketches of daily life in Paris, Saint-Aubin produced one of the liveliest and most insightful records of ancien-régime France. This charming vignette captures an elegant young woman, accompanied by a small boy and a dog, as she lifts the hem of her skirt and prepares to ascend a curving stone stair to a sunlit park
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L'Escalier, Curving Stair, 1778–79, Black chalk, pen, black, brown ink, watercolor, touches, gouache, off-white laid paper, Sheet, 7 3/8 x 4 7/8, 18.7 12.4 cm, Drawings, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French, Paris, 1724–1780, Admired, impromptu sketches, daily life, Saint-Aubin produced, liveliest, insightful records, ancien-régime France, charming vignette captures, elegant young, woman, accompanied, small boy, dog, lifts, hem, skirt, prepares, ascend, curving stone, stair, sunlit park
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