Description
Very large colour lithograph by Charles Node-Saint-Ange of the Oeillade – Noire, a red French wine grape variety that has been historically grown in the Languedoc and Provence wine region but it is now close to extinction.
Charles Node-Saint-Ange was a still life painter from Montpellier, France. Born into a family of artists, he was the son of Montpellier still life and landscape painter Joseph Charles Node-Veran (1811-1886), and his brother, Victor Node, was also a still life painter. These colored lithographs were produced to be published as ampelographic illustrations for a comprehensive survey of grapes of the French Mediterranean region by Henri Marès. Marès was an agricultural engineer and viticulturist based in Montpellier in the latter half of the 19th century.
Marès, H. Description des cépages principaux de la région méditerranéenne de la France.
