François Delpech's Print Shop
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet French
Publisher F. Delpech French
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.
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