The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey)
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 7/8 in. (31.2 × 42.9 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (19 × 24.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.21.85
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1758–1836
**Carle Vernet** (Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, 1758–1836) was a prominent French painter renowned for his dynamic depictions of horses, hunting scenes, and Napoleonic battle subjects. Born in Bordeaux as the youngest child of the celebrated marine and landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet, he displayed an early and intense passion for drawing horses from the age of five. He received a conventio...