Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Le premier coup de feu [print].

Accession number
PML 140273.22
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut, freres éditeurs, Bard. des Italiens No. 5, [1824]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
A companion piece to Charlet's "Le second coup de feu" (La Combe 300).
Signed by the artist within image at lower left; lettered "Lith. de Villain" directly below image at lower left; imprint directly below image at lower right.
Comprises plate 48 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy is folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 265 x 332 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young soldier with his hand in his pocket crouches behind a fence in a wooded landscape, his gun leans against a wall; behind him other soldiers advance into battle.
Classification
Department