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Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
, - align = "right" , , - align = "right" , Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (20 December 1792 – 30 October 1845) was a French painter and printmaker, more especially of military subjects. Life Charlet was born in Paris. He was the son of a dragoon in the Republican army, whose death in the ranks left the widow and orphan in very poor circumstances. Madame Charlet, however, a woman of determined spirit and an extreme Bonapartist, managed to give her boy a moderate education at the Lycée Napoléon, and was repaid by his lifelong affection. His first employment was a minor post in the Paris city administration, where he had to register recruits: he served in the National Guard in 1814, fought bravely at the Barrière de Clichy, and, being thus unacceptable to the Bourbon party, was dismissed from the city administration in 1816. He then, having from a very early age had a propensity for drawing, entered the atelier of the distinguished painter Baron Gros, and soon began issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Episode From The Russian Campaign
''An Episode from the Russian Campaign'' (French - ''Épisode de la campagne de Russie'') is an 1836 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 .... It shows the retreat from Moscow in 1812 at the end of the French invasion of Russia. Sources *http://www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures/xixe_siecle/campagne-de-russie Works about the French invasion of Russia War paintings French paintings 1836 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon {{19C-painting-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
