Original 19th-century lithograph, hand-colored, with a villager smoking a pipe, leaning with folded arms against the wall of a house, beside his dog and beneath a niche with a devotional image. Signed "Charlet" in the stone and printed in Paris by the lithographic press Formentin & Cie.
Original 19th-century lithograph, hand-colored, with a villager smoking a pipe, leaning with folded arms against the wall of a house, beside his dog and beneath a niche with a devotional image. Signed "Charlet" in the stone and printed in Paris by the lithographic press Formentin & Cie.
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (Paris, 1792-1845), a pupil of Gros, was one of the most important French lithographers of the Romantic period, celebrated for his popular and military types.
Medium: Lithograph, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845).
Lithographer: Imp. Lith. Formentin & Cie, Paris.
Date: 19th century.
Dimensions: Image 8.7 x 5.9 in (22 x 15 cm).
Condition: Good. Paper with wide margins, light patina of age and slight cockling at the upper edge.