Le Diable emporte les Albums (The Devil Runs Off with the Lithograph Albums), 1825

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series Title

Album lithographique de Charlet: frontispiece

Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 25.5 x 33.5 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

La Combe 1856, no. 590

Accession Number

1994.58.5

Artists / Makers

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (artist) French, 1792 - 1845

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Charlet; upper center in plate: 1825; lower right in plate: I lith. de Vilain; lower center in plate: Le Diable emporte les Albums. / Chez Gibaut frères éditeurs, Boulevard des Italiens No. 5.; by later hand, upper left in graphite: 590; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 590

Provenance

Paul Prouté, Paris; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

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.