The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
The Picnic
c. 1810
(French, 1759–1849)
after Alexandre Moitte
Image: 26.3 x 18.4 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 31 x 23.4 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
Lithography did not really get under way in France until 1816 when Lasteyrie and Godefroy Engelmann, both trained in the shop of lithography inventor Alois Senefelder (1771-1834) in Germany, opened separate lithographic establishments in Paris. Antoine-Jean Gros and Carle and Horace Vernet were among the earliest artists engaged by Lasteryrie and Godefroy to draw original designs upon the lithographic stone.- Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Mentioned: p. 48; Reproduced: Plate VI archive.org
- Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).
- {{cite web|title=The Picnic|url=false|author=Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant, Alexandre Moitte|year=c. 1810|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1138