Chalons-Vincennes (Chalons Vincennes) Air Race, France, 9th June 1910

Chalons-Vincennes (Chalons Vincennes) Air Race, France, 9th June 1910. Coloured lithograph by Marguerite Montaut, showing a biplane flying close to the ground, watched by a group of seven men in white and two uniformed officers: Lieutenant Fequant and Capitaine Marconnet. Ernest Montaut (1879-1909) and his wife, Marguerite were the first artists to capture the Heroic Age of aviation and motor racing. The Gamy-Montaut (Gamy Montaut) prints were produced by the pochoir process, in which the outlines for each image were drawn onto lithographic stones and printed. The prints were then painstakingly coloured using individual colour stencils. She carried on producing pictures for Mabileau & Co after the death of her husband. It is also possible that she was the painter known as Gamy. ©SSPL/Science Museum