Although not well known to the general public, the eighteenth-century French painter and draughtsman Gabriel de Saint-Aubin has long compelled specialists working on virtually every aspect of Parisian social and cultural life. His exuberant depictions took the form of drawings in chalk, ink, and watercolor, as well as etchings and a few oil paintings, while his subjects ranged over most aspects of the cultured world around him: social interaction both high and low; theater; royal ceremony; legal proceedings; portraiture; history; architecture and ornamental design; and the unique product for which he is best known, miniature depictions of other artists’ works sketched into the margins of auction catalogues, books of poetry and prose, and especially the livrets published to accompany the biannual exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Saint-Aubin, in addition, created several ambitious depictions of the exhibitions themselves, works that offer not only a view into how art met its public in eighteenth-century France, but also, more specifically, what works were displayed when, and how they were physically organized and mounted on the walls of the Salon Carré in the Louvre. Despite their enormous importance to scholars, and their witty, humanist appeal, Saint-Aubin’s works have rarely been...