Name: Antique Drawing-PRISON-MONKEY-SATIRE-TOULON-Weichs-Decamps-19th c.
SKU: PICTURA-08885
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Antique Drawing-PRISON-MONKEY-SATIRE-TOULON-Weichs-Decamps-19th c.

€275.00

‘CAPTION BELOW IMAGE: SELTSAME ESCORTE. IN PENCIL LOWER RIGHT: H. V. WEIEHS FECIT.’

– Satirical composition with two monkeys in military uniform mounted on dogs, escorting another monkey walking ahead with his hands bound behind his back. The scene caricatures the chemin de Toulon, the forced march of convicts to the infamous French prison of Toulon.

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Description

Medium: Pencil drawing on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 21 x 14.5 cm (8.27 x 5.71 inch). Image size: 21 x 14.5 cm. (8.27 x 5.71 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Pencil drawing on wove paper; browned, foxing present. Loosely attached to a carrier sheet. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DECAMPS, MONKEY, SATIRE, TOULON, PRISON, CARICATURE, 19TH CENTURY | EXPO-SATIRE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

After the lithograph Le chemin de Toulon by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps.

Biography engraver: Probably made by a German artist.

Biography artist: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860), French painter and lithographer, known for satirical works and orientalist scenes. His Chemin de Toulon caricatures justice and punishment in France. This sheet is a later drawn copy, signed H. v. Weiehs fecit.