Accession number
PML 140274.3
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut Frères, Boulevard des Italiens, No.5, [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 right; lettered "Imp. lith de M Formentin" at lower left; imprint below image at lower right.
Comprises plate 21 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 is 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 right; lettered "Imp. lith de M Formentin" at lower left; imprint below image at lower right.
Comprises plate 21 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 is folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 265 x 375 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a large group of children playing at being soldiers; a boy without shoes holds up his hand and complains that the best dressed children are always the generals; two laughing soldiers smoking pipes, seated outside a tavern look on and another soldier leans out of a window.
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