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Image: The French Soldier (Le Soldat Français)

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The French Soldier (Le Soldat Français)

ca. 1818
19th century
456 x 336 mm (18 x 13.2 in.)

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French, (1792–1845)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Lithograph on wove paper
Print impression quality: Excellent
Edition: Issued by Delpech, Paris
Marks: Inscribed on stone, lower right: “Imp. Lithog. de F. Delpech”; inscribed on stone, lower center: title; the two-line inscription added by Delpech below the title (“si fractus illabatur orbis, / impavidum ferient ruinae”) has been trimmed away
Bibliography: La Combe 74; Beraldi 74 (vol. 4, p. 117), described as “grande pièce, rare”; Brown University Department of Art, All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era 1792–1851 (Providence, RI: Brown University), cat. no. 4a.
Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1987
Accession Number: 1987.14.1

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This object has the following keywords:
  • early lithography
  • lithography - Planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance and the surface is chemically treated to accept ink only in the greasy areas. [August 1996 alternate term added. March 1995 related term added. January 1993 related terms added. October 1991 scope note changed; descriptor moved.]
  • military
  • Napoleonic era
  • soldiers - Use generally for those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Use also specifically for military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers. For those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare and sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of actual membership in an army, use "warriors." [November 1997 scope note changed; related term added. November 1996 related term deleted, was "knights (landholders)". February 1993 scope note changed; descriptor moved. December 1992 related terms added; alternate term added. November 1990 descriptor added.]

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  • image Dimensions: 456 x 336 mm (18 x 13.2 in.)

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