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Unkempt, malodorous, and toothless, Saint-Aubin would wander Paris’s streets and haunt its theaters, dance halls, and brothels, recording everything he saw in his sketchbooks. And how he drew! According to his brother’s estimation, Saint-Aubin executed more than 100,000 drawings in his career. According to his friend Greuze, one of the finest painters of the ancien régime, Saint-Aubin “had an almost priapic urge to draw.
A Prodigy of Nature - October 25, 2007 - The New York Sun
[preview by James Gardner of the Saint-Aubin exhibition]