Hoofd van een oude man met muts en lans
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
270; 358
About this artwork
height 358 mm x width 270 mm
Art Historical Context
**Hoofd van een oude met muts en lansHead of an Old Man Cap and Lance)** Created in 1828 by French Nicolas Toussaint Char (1792–1845), this evocative lithography portrays the close-up visage of an elderly man wearing a simple cap and holding a lance. Charlet, a celebrated lithographer and painter, often captured the faces of everyday people, infusing his works with humanity and subtle emotion. The subject's rugged features and stoic gaze suggest a life of hardship, perhaps hinting at a veteran or laborer from post-Napoleonic France. Lithography, the medium here, was a groundbreaking 19th-c...
About the Artist
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet · 1792–1845
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