Print Description
The print shows a group of figures, including a man, women, and children, all in a rustic interior trying to catch a rat. The characters are armed with brooms and other makeshift tools as they scour the floor. The engraving is rich in detail, with intricate shading and fine depiction of facial expressions, conveying the tension and comedy of the moment.
Made by Jean-Baptiste Meunier after A. Madou.
Medium: Etching / engraving on thin china paper (chine collee) attached to wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 54.6 x 48.5 cm (21.5 x 19.09 inch). Image size: 47.7 x 35.5 cm. (18.78 x 13.98 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light overall soiling and creasing. Some staining in top margin and some paper loss of the china paper in top corners. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LA CHASSE AU RAT, GENRE SCENE, RAT HUNT, HUMOROUS ENGRAVING, DOMESTIC LIFE, 19TH CENTURY, J.B. MEUNIER, A. MADOU, FRENCH ENGRAVING | EXPO-402 (MPRINTS LARGE)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Handsigned by Meunier at bottom right and dated 1862. Bases on a work aby Madou from 1857. With a blind stamp at bottom middle “Position Nationale des Beaux Arts Belgique’. Printed by F. Chardon in Paris.
Biography engraver: Jean- Baptiste Meunier (1821-1900) was an engraver from Brussels. Jean-Baptiste Meunier studied with Camalatta and Vanderhaert. He received a commission to copy several works of the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. In Brussels he painted portraits of many of his contemporaries and he was a teacher at the Ecole des Arts Industriels et D?coratifs.
Biography artist: Jean Baptiste Madou (1786-1877) was a Belgian painter, etcher and renowned pioneer lithographer.
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