Le Chien de l'Hospice (after Pierre Antoine Augustin Vafflard)
Denis Sebastien Leroy (d.1832) and Francois Janet (fl.1814 - 1843)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
wood, glass & paper
Measurements
480 x 360 mm; 620 mm (Height); 500 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 292515
Summary
Etching, Le Chien de l'Hospice (after Pierre Antoine Augustin Vafflard) by Denis-Sebastien Leroy (b.Paris fl.1795 - d.1832) and Francois Janet (fl.1814-1843). Entitled 'Le Chien de l'Hospice'. An inscription (in French) describes how trained dogs go out to find distressed travellers in the Alps. This dog is shown entering a door marked with a cross, a young child on its back. Originally in an ebonised frame with fluting and gilt inner edge (now in MS14). Glass is broken.
Marks and inscriptions
LE CHIEN DE L'HOSPICE (printed under image)
Makers and roles
Denis Sebastien Leroy (d.1832) and Francois Janet (fl.1814 - 1843), engraver (printmaker) François Janet (fl.1814 - 1843), engraver (printmaker) Denis Sébastien Leroy (d.1832), engraver (printmaker) after Pierre Antoine Augustin Vafflard (1777 - 1830), artist