Benham
Medium
Two lithographs in black on cream wove paper, printed on the same sheet
Dimensions
Image: 16 × 26.9 cm (6 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Sheets: 48.5 × 36.7 cm (19 1/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39869
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department will encounter *Benham*, a captivating pair of lithographs created in 1806 by Antoine Philippe dléans, a French prince and amateur artist from the illustrious House of Orléans. Born in 1775, d'Orléans was brother to the future King Louis Philippe I and pursued art amid the turbulent post-Revolutionary era. This work, featuring two images in black ink on cream wove paper printed on a single large sheet (48.5 × 36.7 cm), measures 16 × 26.9 cm per image—compact yet evocative. Lithography, invented just a decade earlier by ...