All Resolutions
(Plate 2.)
Artist
- Name:
- Huet, Christophe
- Dates:
- 1694 or 1700-1759
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals, Humor
- Technique:
- Etching
- Engraver:
- Guélard, Jean-Baptiste
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Singeries, ou différentes actions de la vie humaine representées par des singes
- Author(s):
- Huet, Christophe
- Publisher:
- Paris: Daumont, n.d. [ca. 1740]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Two monkeys wearing sleeveless shirts, breeches, and hats are kneeling on the ground facing each other, one holding a hunting horn for the other to blow into it.
The caption reads in the original French: Le maître de cors [sic] de chasse.
Keywords: 1740s, 18th century, anthropomorphic, black & white, monkey, music
