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Papa Nanan!...Papa CaCa! [print].

Accession number
PML 140273.33
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut, Fréres, editeurs, B.ard des Italiens No 5, [1824]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Below first line of caption: Madame valse avec le Cousin.
Companion piece to Charlet's "Papa! Dada!" (La Combe 295).
Signed by the artist within image at lower right; lettered below at right,"Chez Gihaut, Fréres, editeurs, B.ard des Italiens No 5".
Comprises plate 97 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: 296 x 379 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a bourgeois family man seated at a table in a garden, smoking a long pipe; he holds an umbrella and has a shawl across his knee; he is surrounded by two children and broken toys; couples dancing and musicians on a balcony are behind him at right.
Classification
Department