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Honneur au courage malheureux [print].

Accession number
PML 140275.2
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1827.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated by the artist within image at lower left; lettered below image, "I. Lith. de Gihaut frères. Boulevard des Italiens No. 5."
Comprises plate 20 of v. 3 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 232 x 168 mm; sheet: 345 x 265 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene outside a tavern where an elderly and intoxicated veteran who has fallen at the foot of a tree is helped to his feet by a soldier who gives him a grinning salute as he assists him.
Classification
Department