Description
Description: Published by Godefroy Engelmann. Depiction of a monkey performing tricks on a rope at a village fair.
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 singe et le leopard.' - Depiction of a monkey performing tricks on a rope at a village fair.
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. 34.6 x 27.6 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 13.6 x 10.9 inch.
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper.
Location: TPCLA-A32-22
Section: TEMPLATE-251
