Study session: Persuading the King: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin’s placets de l’officier Desbans and other

A rare opportunity to study Waddesdon Manor's newly acquired royal petition by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin alongside other manuscript volumes, drawings and prints by the artist and his brothers Charles-Germain and Augustin. Senior Curator Dr Juliet Carey and Curator Rachel Jacobs will offer a glimpse into the politics of promotion and favour near the end of the Old Regime. Works will include Gabriel de Saint-Aubin's Memoire sur la reformation de la police de France (1749) and a special copy of Du Perron's Discours sur la peinture et sur l'architecture (1757) made for the book's dedicatee Madame de Pompadour. Charles-Germain de Aubin's famous Livre de caricatures will provide a subversive counterpoint to the arts of flattery and persuasion that lay at the heart of court culture.

Suitable for
Any age

Admission
£25 (£15 National Trust/Art Fund members), £10 students

Website
https://www.waddesdonmanor.org/pages/Daytime-Events-Book.html?token=6def508d86819304592c071bf51ff9f2&ID=78&time=1466726400

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/mw795?id=EVENT552669