Accession number
PML 140277.3
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, [1840].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Below first line of caption title: On ne dit plus: Est-il honnète homme? A-t-il du mérite? On dit: Fait-il son affaire? A-t-il de l'argent?
Signed by the artist within the image at lower left; lettered below the image at left, "Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, Bard. des Italiens No. 5"; below image at right, "Lith. de Villain, rue de Sèvres, 19".
Comprises plate 70 of v. 5 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Below first line of caption title: On ne dit plus: Est-il honnète homme? A-t-il du mérite? On dit: Fait-il son affaire? A-t-il de l'argent?
Signed by the artist within the image at lower left; lettered below the image at left, "Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, Bard. des Italiens No. 5"; below image at right, "Lith. de Villain, rue de Sèvres, 19".
Comprises plate 70 of v. 5 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: 221 x 305 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene in front of the doorway of the "Banque philanthropique", where a a woman lies dead or or unconscious in the arms of a man, with a baby lying in her lap; at left, a man clutching an armful of moneybags is shown entering the building, while at right a man wearing an apron stands over the stricken couple with a bowl of soup; at the far right a rock hammer rests against the side of a boulder, two well dressed men in tophats smoking cigars are visible behind it and in the background stands a building with "Boursa" on its facade.
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