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[Grec contemplant ses riches] Pl.4.
Charlet [signed in plate.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5 [Paris, n.d., c.1828].
Fine lithograph on india paper, india 215 x 180mm. 8½ x 7". Margins a little foxed.
A "Greek" wearing a turban and cloak is seated at a table with coins and a box of jewels around him; a supernatural figure and a skeleton holding a scythe are represented with white outlines on a dark background. Print made by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), from a series of lithographs 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet' (1828), and printed by Villain on behalf of the publisherAntoine François Gihaut from Normandy.
See La Combe:710 'Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique' (Paris, 1856). British Museum reference:1869,0410.94
[Ref: 22401] £60.00
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5 [Paris, n.d., c.1828].
Fine lithograph on india paper, india 215 x 180mm. 8½ x 7". Margins a little foxed.
A "Greek" wearing a turban and cloak is seated at a table with coins and a box of jewels around him; a supernatural figure and a skeleton holding a scythe are represented with white outlines on a dark background. Print made by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), from a series of lithographs 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet' (1828), and printed by Villain on behalf of the publisherAntoine François Gihaut from Normandy.
See La Combe:710 'Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique' (Paris, 1856). British Museum reference:1869,0410.94
[Ref: 22401] £60.00