2-750-501 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ceiling in the Grande Singerie, Château de Chantilly, France, (1928). 'About 1735...Ceiling-painting in the "Salons des Singes" in Chantilly Castle...Ascribed...to Christophe Huet (d. 1759 in Paris)'. Detail of interior decoration depicting singes (monkeys) dressed as humans and performing human activities. After P. Gelis-Didot. Plate XCVI, fig 189, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]