# Monkey Preaching to Turkeys

- By: Christophe Huet (French, 1700–1759)
- Date: 1750–1800
- Medium: Gouache
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 32.2 x 39.6 cm (12 11/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.215)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2017.215/2017.215_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This work belongs to a genre of imagery called singerie, which depicts monkeys dressed in human clothes parodying the actions of people. Here, a monkey preaches to a flock of turkeys from a wicker basket pulpit hanging from a tree. The turkeys, interpreted as symbols of foolishness, are deceived by the cunning primate in the disguise of a monk’s habit.