The Picnic
Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant
1810
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant
1810
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Picnic is a 1810 by Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows three people sitting on the grass near a river. A man in a dark coat watches the woman beside him. She holds a book and looks away. Lasteyrie helped start lithography in France after learning it in Germany. He later ran a print shop in Paris with a partner. The scene feels relaxed but formal, like a snapshot of high society. This artist also worked with early photographers. Check out Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (French, 1759–1849).
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.
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Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (1759–1849) was a French artist.
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