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Object Type
Museum number: 1861,1012.787
Title: Object: La danse des chiens
Description: A performing dogs show on a public square, with man wrapped in blue cape standing at centre and brandishing a whip as dogs dressed as human are jumping through a hoop he is holding; on the left, a man playing drum and pipe; in the background, a crowd attending the show. 1832 Hand-coloured lithograph
Producer name: After: Carle Vernet; Print made by: Victor Adam; Published by: Jacques Louis Bance (Bance aîné); Published by: Charles Tilt; Printed by: Louis Pierre Alphonse Bichebois
School/style
Production date: 1832
Production place: Published in: Paris (France); Published in: London (England); Printed in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 264 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 361 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Dayot 1925 / Carle Vernet, étude sur l'artiste suivie d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et du catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective de 1925 (156); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (vol. I page 54)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: performing animal; acrobat/street-performer
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1861
Acquisition notes: Collector (?)'s mark on recto: oval blind stamp with initials 'BBF' (?); not in Lugt ?
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1861,1012.787

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