Au Moins Soyez Discret (At Least Be Discreet)

1789

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of five (Bocher)
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 3/16 × 15 1/16 in. (53.8 × 38.3 cm) Plate: 14 13/16 × 10 7/16 in. (37.6 × 26.5 cm)
Collection no.: 35.100.13
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Au Moins Soyez Discret (At Least Be Discreet). Augustin de Saint-Aubin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Au Moins Soyez Discret (At Least Be Discreet) — Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 1789.

Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of five (Bocher). Dimensions: Sheet: 21 3/16 × 15 1/16 in. (53.8 × 38.3 cm) Plate: 14 13/16 × 10 7/16 in. (37.6 × 26.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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