Adolphe MOUILLERON (Paris, 1820 - 1881) "André Vésale" (Andreas Vesalius) Original lithograph on a background painted with a subject by Edouard Hamman (1819 - 1888) painted in 1849, printed by the Imprimerie Bertauts of Paris on behalf of the publisher Buddeus of Dusseldorf which publishes it in the same year (see the announcement on the Parisian period Illustration n ° 337 of 1849) Beautiful copy on Japanese paper applied on heavy paper, with large margins, slight foxing blooms at the white edges but in the complex in good general condition. Adolphe Mouilleron was honored in life by the contemporary criticism of the title of "prince des lithographes", his hand on stone was able to faithfully render in monochrome the color emotions present in the original paintings and the spirit of his contemporary painters. Edouard Hamman's painting is kept at Stimson Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca in New York State. Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) was one of the most important scientists of the sixteenth century in the anatomical and medical field. He was born in Brussels and was trained first at the University of Leuven and then at that of Paris; he and Johannes Oporinus are responsible for the most important treatise on human anatomy of that era, the "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" ​​published in 1543, one of his most staunch supporters was the Emperor Charles V. Bibliography: Benezit "Dictionnaire des Peintres .. . "Paris 1976, vol. 5 pag. 381 and vol. 7 pag. 574. Beraldi "Les Graveurs du XIX Siecle" Paris, 1890 vol. X page 154. Spielmann "The Iconography of Andreas Vesalius" London 1925 p. 109. Measurements in mm: 515 x 583 (the sheet)