{"title":"The Montaut Collection, 1895-1907","description":"\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut more or less invented the motor-racing print. In his album \u003cem\u003e10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\u003c\/em\u003e he recorded the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests one plate at a time, each with its result printed on the tissue guard laid over it: Panhard at Paris-Amsterdam, Mors at Paris-Madrid, Renault in the first Grand Prix, Fiat at Dieppe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach plate is printed from a high-resolution scan of the original album at a single size: the panoramas at 38cm x 18cm in a 60x40cm frame, the three upright plates at 27cm x 37cm in a 40x50cm frame. Every print comes with a deep mount and an even border all round, in the frame of your choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coupe-gordon-bennett-1903-mercedes-ernest-montaut","title":"Coupe Gordon-Bennett 1903, Mercedes - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoupe Gordon-Bennett 1903, Mercedes\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGordon Bennett Cup, 1903. Jenatzy, the winner, on a Mercedes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercedes was the name Daimler gave its cars at the request of Emil Jellinek, its agent in Nice, after his daughter. Camille Jenatzy, the Belgian known as the Red Devil, won the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup in Ireland in one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. Each plate records one victory from the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests, with the result printed on the tissue guard laid over it, and the plates were coloured by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of the original hand-coloured plate, trimmed to the image and a margin of its own sheet. Each print is made to order on cotton-fibre archival paper, then mounted with a deep even border and hand-framed in our workshop rather than sent out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"27cm x 37cm","offer_id":55491601367381,"sku":"MONTAUT032-M-27X37","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_a9277c77-a460-4e94-859c-cf2f2f1a6321.jpg?v=1792766925"},{"product_id":"paris-madrid-1903-mors-ernest-montaut","title":"Paris-Madrid 1903, Mors - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis-Madrid 1903, Mors\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis-Madrid, 1903. Gabriel, on a Dauphin-Mors, won the race, covering the Paris-Bordeaux stage, 552 km, in 5 hours 14 minutes, an average of 105.8 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMors was a Paris electrical engineering firm that turned to motor cars in the 1890s, and its racing cars took the great town-to-town races between 1900 and 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. Each plate records one victory from the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests, with the result printed on the tissue guard laid over it, and the plates were coloured by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of the original hand-coloured plate, trimmed to the image and a margin of its own sheet. Made to order on cotton-fibre archival paper at the one size the plate is cut to, with the mount and frame cut and finished by hand here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491610509653,"sku":"MONTAUT029-M-38X18","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_2b4c1e49-34bb-44ea-840a-fa8afb640ee8.jpg?v=1792766968"},{"product_id":"paris-bordeaux-paris-1895-panhard-et-levassor-ernest-montaut","title":"Paris-Bordeaux-Paris 1895, Panhard et Levassor - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis-Bordeaux-Paris 1895, Panhard et Levassor\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis-Bordeaux-Paris, 1895, 1,183 km. Levassor finished first on a 4 horsepower Panhard et Levassor, averaging 24.2 km an hour. 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Made to order on heavyweight cotton-fibre archival paper and sold at a single size, mounted with an equal border all round and framed in-house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491818193237,"sku":"MONTAUT011-M-38X18","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_8710c2ed-6af8-424a-8e91-4d0c9f1367f5.jpg?v=1792767622"},{"product_id":"paris-amsterdam-1898-panhard-et-levassor-ernest-montaut","title":"Paris-Amsterdam 1898, Panhard et Levassor - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis-Amsterdam 1898, Panhard et Levassor\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis-Amsterdam, 1898, 1,521 km. Charron finished first on an 8 horsepower Panhard et Levassor, averaging 44 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanhard et Levassor of Paris built the first cars with the engine at the front driving the rear wheels, the layout that became the standard motor car, and their cars won most of the early town-to-town races.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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The Chevalier René de Knyff finished first on a 16 horsepower Panhard et Levassor, averaging 51.1 km an hour, with Panhards also second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh - a race of unheard-of length that proved the car's strength and endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanhard et Levassor of Paris built the first cars with the engine at the front driving the rear wheels, the layout that became the standard motor car, and their cars won most of the early town-to-town races.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. 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Levegh, driving the Mors racing car in a race held during the Exposition Universelle, finished first, covering 1,348 km in 20 hours 50 minutes, an average of 64.7 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMors was a Paris electrical engineering firm that turned to motor cars in the 1890s, and its racing cars took the great town-to-town races between 1900 and 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. Each plate records one victory from the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests, with the result printed on the tissue guard laid over it, and the plates were coloured by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of the original hand-coloured plate, trimmed to the image and a margin of its own sheet. 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The 1901 Mors racing car won Paris-Bordeaux in the hands of Henri Fournier, 527 km at 85.3 km an hour, and then Paris-Berlin, again with Fournier, 1,106 km in 15 hours 33 minutes at 71.1 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMors was a Paris electrical engineering firm that turned to motor cars in the 1890s, and its racing cars took the great town-to-town races between 1900 and 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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Printed on archival cotton-fibre paper when your order is placed, and mounted with a border of equal width on every side so the plate sits centred in the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491826221397,"sku":"MONTAUT023-M-38X18","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_9c0ae5f1-ac35-4d05-8787-59a81101f322.jpg?v=1792767656"},{"product_id":"paris-vienne-1902-renault-ernest-montaut","title":"Paris-Vienne 1902, Renault - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis-Vienne 1902, Renault\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis-Vienne, 1902, 1,419 km. The Renault Frères light car beat everything on the road - heavy cars, light cars, voiturettes and motorcycles - and Marcel Renault finished first, Paris to Vienna in 15 hours 46 minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouis, Marcel and Fernand Renault founded Renault Frères at Billancourt in 1899 and raced their own cars. Marcel was killed in Paris-Madrid in 1903, and in 1906 Ferenc Szisz won the first Grand Prix for the marque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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De Crawhez finished first on a 70 horsepower Panhard et Levassor, averaging 87.3 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanhard et Levassor of Paris built the first cars with the engine at the front driving the rear wheels, the layout that became the standard motor car, and their cars won most of the early town-to-town races.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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The trial that chose the three cars to defend French colours in the Taunus was run in the French Ardennes. Rougier and Gabriel, on Lorraine-Dietrich, finished third and fourth, and Rougier went on to race in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Dietrich of Lunéville raced under the Lorraine-Dietrich name with the cross of Lorraine as its emblem, printed on the tissue guards of its plates in this album, and with Arthur Duray, Henri Rougier and Gabriel among its drivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. 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Nazzaro finished first on a Fiat, breaking the speed record for the race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1907 was Felice Nazzaro's year: he won the Targa Florio, the Kaiserpreis and the French Grand Prix at Dieppe for the Turin maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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Szisz, on a Renault Frères car, was first past the stands and second overall, losing first place by just six minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouis, Marcel and Fernand Renault founded Renault Frères at Billancourt in 1899 and raced their own cars. Marcel was killed in Paris-Madrid in 1903, and in 1906 Ferenc Szisz won the first Grand Prix for the marque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. Each plate records one victory from the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests, with the result printed on the tissue guard laid over it, and the plates were coloured by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken from a high-resolution scan of an original plate from the album, with the hand colouring left exactly as it was laid. Made to order on heavyweight cotton-fibre archival paper and sold at a single size, mounted with an equal border all round and framed in-house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491858891093,"sku":"MONTAUT091-M-38X18","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_33f7dc62-f0ee-498e-8105-30bbd8432818.jpg?v=1792767838"},{"product_id":"chateau-thierry-regina-ernest-montaut","title":"Château-Thierry, Régina - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChâteau-Thierry, Régina\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChâteau-Thierry, and the Régina cars: at the start of 1907 \"the coming marque\", by its end \"the marque that has arrived\". They took first, second and third in their class in the Coupe du Poitou, first and second at the Ostend week, and in the classic Château-Thierry and Gaillon hill climbs all three 1908 models won their class. The 40 horsepower car driven by M. de Bosredon at Château-Thierry ran the mile a minute and fourteen seconds ahead of the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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Naudin first and Sizaire second, both on Sizaire et Naudin voiturettes, averaging 67.6 km an hour, with a lap record of 82 km an hour. Naudin also won on a Sizaire et Naudin at the Targa Florio that April.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSizaire et Naudin built light voiturettes in Paris and dominated the voiturette races of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. 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