Débit d'Albums avec Procédés nouveaux (New Methods for the Sale of Lithograph Albums)

1827

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet

Associated Names
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet

Artist, French, 1792 - 1845

This is a drawing of three individuals in a humorous scene. One person holds a book or album while being coerced to buy it by two others. The background features intricate foliage, and text above the trio reads "DÉBIT D'ALBUMS Avec Procédés nouveaux. 1827." Below, text implies the necessity of purchasing the album. The characters wear detailed period attire.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.5 x 33.6 cm (10 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.58.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    La Combe 1856, no. 659

  • Series Title

    Album lithographique par Charlet: frontispiece

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Prouté, Paris; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Charlet.; upper center in plate: DEBIT D'ALBUMS / Avec Procédés nouveaux. / 1827.; lower center in plate: Si vous n'acheter pas mon Album / Vous êtes mort!...... / A Paris, chez Gibaut Frères, Editeurs, Boulevard des Italiens, No. 5. / Lith. de Villain.; by later hand, upper left in graphite: 659; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 659

Wikidata ID

Q75125317

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