Galerie Du Palais Royal

Hand-colored lithograph, 1824, French.
Image: 7 3/8 x 10
Paper: 13 3/4 x 16 1/4
Good condition; tape along edges of paper.

Inventory Number: 10358
People descending stairs, guards in foreground.

Jean-Baptiste Arnout was a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver. Arnout studied in Dijon and Paris; he was one of the first French professional lithographers. He worked in Joseph Lemercier’s studio in Paris and on Russian commissions for Italian publisher Giuseppe Daziaro. Jean-Baptiste Arnout contributed landscapes and architectural views of towns in France, Italy and Belgium to the Paris Salon.