Lieutenant, je cherche du fourrage pour mon cheval (Lieutenant, I am Looking for Fodder for My Horse)
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French, 1792 - 1845
1828
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 4 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (11.4 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 7/8 in. (25.7 × 32.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.949.23
Printer
Imprimerie H. Gaugain & Cie
Publisher
Gihaut Frères, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone, lower left margin: Charlet del.t [t in superscript]; inscribed, on stone, lower center: Lieutenant je cherche du fourrage pour mon cheval / à Paris chez H. Gaugain & C.ie [ie in superscript] rue Vivienne No. [o in superscript] 2 Imp. lith de H. Gaugain rue de Vaugirard No. [o in superscript] 34; Collector's mark, stamped, in brown ink, center: Dr. Jul. Hofmann / Wien [in rectangle] [Lugt 1264]
Course History
ARTH 49, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850), Katie Hornstein, Fall 2013
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Dr. Julius Hofmann (1840-1913), Vienna (Lugt 1264); Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1949.
Catalogue Raisonne
M. de la Combe, Charlet, Paris, 1856, no. 318
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