Aux vieux grognards! le tailleur de pierre reconnaissant [print].

Accession number: 
PML 140273.24
Author: 
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published: 
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut, Bould. des Italiens, No. 5, [1822]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph ; image: 285 x 326 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Date from La Combe.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left; lettered "Lith. de Villain, rue de sévres N 11" directly below image at lower right; imprint directly below image at lower left.
Comprises plate 50 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy is folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a scene outside a cabaret, "Au Rendez-Vous d'Austerlitz", where a stone-cutter offers a glass of wine to a grenadier who salutes; a tricorn hat lies on the ground next to the stone-cutter and a church is in the background.

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