Accession number
PML 140274.4
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1825]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Text below first line of caption reads: Si les mieux habillés veut toujours être les générals, j'leurs y fiche des calottes.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left; lettered "Imp. lith de M Formentin" at lower left.
Comprises plate 22 of v. 2 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 trimmed at foot with loss of caption text; folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.
Text below first line of caption reads: Si les mieux habillés veut toujours être les générals, j'leurs y fiche des calottes.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left; lettered "Imp. lith de M Formentin" at lower left.
Comprises plate 22 of v. 2 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 trimmed at foot with loss of caption text; folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 285 x 356 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene outside a building with an open window where an old woman sits stirring a pot on a stove, she offers a cup to a soldier behind her who has his arm around her shoulder; soldiers in a wooded landscape are visible in the background.
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