François Delpech's Print Shop
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century printsellers filled their windows with works for sale, turning their shops into advertisements and public viewing sites. Here, Vernet depicted the storefront of his printer, François Delpech, one of Paris’s popular early lithographic printers, who ran his business with his wife and four daughters. Individuals of all ages, genders, and social classes stop to look at the prints, even if they cannot afford them, from the military officer at right and the single man on tiptoe at left, to the young family and the apprentice carrying a lithographic stone in the center. One hundred years after its making, Rockman Prints—a twentieth-century New York seller—repurposed this image, pasting a scrap of paper with its name over Delpech's door.
Artwork Details
- Title: François Delpech's Print Shop
- Artist: Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet (French, Bordeaux 1758–1836 Paris)
- Publisher: F. Delpech (Paris)
- Date: ca. 1820
- Medium: Lithograph with 20th century lettering addition (“Rockman Prints")
- Dimensions: Image: 6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (16.8 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in. (21.9 × 29.3 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977
- Object Number: 1977.614.25
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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