{"product_id":"tour-de-france-1899-panhard-et-levassor-ernest-montaut","title":"Tour de France 1899, Panhard et Levassor - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTour de France 1899, 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\u003eTour de France, 1899, 2,220 km. 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. 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":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491822158165,"sku":"MONTAUT017-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_64897f34-869c-4a59-bff8-19a7a1ef8899.jpg?v=1792767640","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/tour-de-france-1899-panhard-et-levassor-ernest-montaut","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}