Accession number
PML 140275.21
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs, [1830].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from La Combe.
La Combe identifies 2 plates only of diverse studies, numbered "3" and "4" (La Combe 324-325), comprising this untitled series, with no mention of plates 1 or 2.
Signed in the stone "Charlet" and numbered "3" above the image; inscribed in the image (beside the sketch of Jupiter) "Jupiter doit toujours être comme ça" and lettered below the image with "Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs" and "Boulevard des Italiens No. 5".
Comprises plate 105 of v. 3 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
La Combe identifies 2 plates only of diverse studies, numbered "3" and "4" (La Combe 324-325), comprising this untitled series, with no mention of plates 1 or 2.
Signed in the stone "Charlet" and numbered "3" above the image; inscribed in the image (beside the sketch of Jupiter) "Jupiter doit toujours être comme ça" and lettered below the image with "Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs" and "Boulevard des Italiens No. 5".
Comprises plate 105 of v. 3 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: 175 x 250 mm; sheet: 265 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Sheet of fourteen diverse studies; in the center a seated female figure in profile, a seated boy and a female figure seen from the back; studies on the left include Jupiter with an eagle on his knee and a Polichinel; to the right are studies of three children, a mounted figure and a peasant with a dog standing under a tree.
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