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The Sign Painter (Le Peintre d'Enseignes)

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet

Associated Names

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet

Artist, French, 1792 - 1845

The image shows a person seated in front of an easel with a canvas. The individual is engaged in painting, dressed in a long coat, trousers, and boots. They hold a painter's palette in their left hand and a brush in their right hand, with various items around them.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1947.7.18
Catalogue Raisonné

La Combe 1856, no. 57

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1856

La Combe, Joseph Felix Leblanc de. Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonne de son oeuvre lithographique. Paris: Paulin et Le Chevalier, 1856.

Wikidata ID

Q65081521

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