Le lièvre et la tortue

About this artwork

Prent gebruikt voor: L'Artiste, journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts 11 (1836). L'Artiste was een geïllustreerd weekblad dat verscheen tussen 1831 en 1904.

Art Historical Context

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’s *Le lièvre et la tortue* (1836) is a lively lithograph created for the influential French journal *L’Artiste*. Measuring just 201 × 280 mm, the print appeared in volume 11 of the weekly, which ran from 1831 to 1904 and played a key role in bringing contemporary art and literature to a broad, educated readership. Lithography was ideally suited to such periodicals: the technique allowed artists to draw directly on stone, producing affordable, high-quality reproductions that captured spontaneous line and tonal nuance. Decamps, already celebrated for his expressive dra...

About the Artist

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · 1803–1860

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