The Picnic (c. 1810): Art, History and Details

The Picnic (c. 1810) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (French, 1759–1849); Alexandre Moitte (French, 1750–1828).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Lithography did not really get under way in France until 1816 when Lasteyrie and Godefroy Engelmann, both trained in the shop of lithography inventor Alois Senefelder (1771-1834) in Germany, opened separate lithographic establishments in Paris. Antoine-Jean Gros and Carle and Horace Vernet were among the earliest artists engaged by Lasteryrie and Godefroy to draw original designs upon the lithographic stone.

Object facts

• Title: The Picnic
• Date: c. 1810
• Creator attribution: Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (French, 1759–1849); Alexandre Moitte (French, 1750–1828)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph
• Dimensions: Image: 26.3 x 18.4 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 31 x 23.4 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1940.1138

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.

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