Description
Description: Published by Godefroy Engelmann. Depiction of a man beating his adultrous wife.
Artists and engravers:Made by Carle Vernet after own design. Antoine Charles Horace Vernet aka. Carle Vernet (1758-1835) was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet. Born in Bordeaux, Vernet was a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie. Strangely, after winning the grand prix (1782), his father had to recall him back from Rome to France to prevent him from entering a monastery. He was a painter of animals en genre scenes. He specialised in depiction of horses. Vernet worked with lithography and made many prints in this medium.
Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: 'Le Cocu battu et content.' - Depiction of a man beating his adultrous wife.
Condition: Very good, given age. Ample margins. Some foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 36.2 x 25.7 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 14.3 x 10.1 inch.
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper.
Location: TPCLA-A32-23
Section: TEMPLATE-251
