{"product_id":"circuit-de-la-sarthe-1906-renault-ernest-montaut","title":"Circuit de la Sarthe 1906, Renault - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCircuit de la Sarthe 1906, 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\u003eCircuit de la Sarthe, 1906, 1,236 km. Victory returns to Renault Frères: their car, driven by Szisz, was first on both days of the race and first overall, some 60 km ahead of the second.\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\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of the original hand-coloured plate, trimmed to the image and a margin of its own sheet. 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":55491848110421,"sku":"MONTAUT068-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_49fcee63-9388-4d49-aa8f-f8d912b0f706.jpg?v=1792767769","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/circuit-de-la-sarthe-1906-renault-ernest-montaut","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}