Nicolas-Toussaint CHARLET

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet's egalitarian subject matter and dramatic lithographic style influenced generations of artists, including a young Honoré Daumier. Charlet  (1792–1845) was a prolific lithographer and draftsman known for his vivid genre scenes of life in post-Revolutionary France. As an artist, Charlet understood the commercial viability of lithography and became a master of the medium, producing hundreds of plates between the 1820s and 1840s. His compassionate observations of veterans, infantrymen, and street figures, with a blend of realism and sentiment, are an enduring record of a population often overlooked by history.