Original etching with a tavern scene: a drinker slumped in his chair while the landlady and another customer lean over the table among empty bottles. Engraved by L. Prevost after Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, whose signature appears on the copper itself.
Original etching with a tavern scene: a drinker slumped in his chair while the landlady and another customer lean over the table among empty bottles. Engraved by L. Prevost after Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, whose signature appears on the copper itself.
Charlet (1792-1845) was one of the great illustrators of French Romanticism, celebrated for his popular types and for his scenes of the Napoleonic epic.
Medium: Etching
Artist / after: Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845)
Engraver: L. Prevost
Date: 19th century
Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.5 in (29.5 x 21.5 cm)
Condition: Foxed paper, with a manuscript pencil caption in the lower margin and light staining at the edges.