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L'Organiste Ambulant (The Itinerant Organist), Singeries ou différentes actions de la vie humaine représentées par des singes (Monkey Antics or Different Actions of Human Life Represented by Monkeys)

Christophe Huetca. 1743

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Plate from a series of prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. At left, a figure of a monkey in gentleman's costume (wearing feathered hat) riding another monkey walking on all fours. The seated monkey plays music on an organ attached to the walking monkey, whose mouth is connected to a pipe attached to the organ. Another monkey uses a bellows to blow air into the monkey's rear end to create the music.

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  • Title: L'Organiste Ambulant (The Itinerant Organist), Singeries ou différentes actions de la vie humaine représentées par des singes (Monkey Antics or Different Actions of Human Life Represented by Monkeys)
  • Creator: Christophe Huet, French, 1700–1759, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guelard, French, 1719–ca. 1755
  • Date Created: ca. 1743
  • Location Created: Paris, France
  • Publisher: Charpentier, Paris, France
  • Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
  • Medium: Etching on paper
  • Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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