N'abandonnez pas cette pauvre veuve
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Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
(Paris, France, 1792–1845)
Printer
François Villain
(1798–1884)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1822
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (26 × 34.6 cm)
Image: 6 11/16 × 9 1/16 in. (17 × 23 cm)
Image: 6 11/16 × 9 1/16 in. (17 × 23 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin and Ethel Romansky, 1982.356
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1982.356
On View
Not on viewWhen Charlet turned to the lower segments of society - beggars, peg-legged, aging infantrymen lounging in cafes, or the shabby dog clipper seen in this print, he romanticized their afflictions to make the viewer pity and want to help them.
Exhibitions
Attributed to Edouard Charles de Beaumont
1841