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CHARLET, NICOLAS TOUSSAINT (1792-1845)
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See also:CHARLET, See also:NICOLAS See also:TOUSSAINT (1792-1845) , See also:French de-signer and painter, more especially of military subjects, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 20th of See also:December 1792. He was the son of a See also:dragoon in the Republican See also:army, whose See also:death in the ranks See also:left the widow and See also:orphan in very poor circumstances. Madame Charlet, however, a woman of determined spirit and an extreme Napoleonist, managed to give her boy a moderate See also:education at the Lycee See also:Napoleon, and was repaid by his lifelong See also:affection. His first employment was in a Parisian mairie, where he had to See also:register recruits: he served in the See also:National Guard in 1814, fought bravely at the Barriere de See also:Clichy, and, being thus unacceptable to the See also:Bourbon party, was dismissed from the mairie in 1816. He then, having from a very See also:early See also:age had a propensity for See also:drawing, entered the atelier of the distinguished painter See also:Baron See also:Gros, and soon began issuing the first of those lithographed designs which eventually brought him renown. His " See also:Grenadier de See also:Waterloo," 1817, with the See also:motto " La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas " (a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet), was particularly popular. It was only towards 1822, however, that he began to be successful in a professional sense. Lithographs (about 2000 altogether), See also:water-See also:colours, See also:sepia-drawings, numerous oil sketches, and a few etchings followed one another rapidly; there were also three exhibited oil pictures, the first of which was especially admired—" See also:Episode in the See also:Campaign of See also:Russia " (1836), the " Passage of the See also:Rhine by See also:Moreau " (1837), " Wounded Soldiers Halting in a See also:Ravine " (1843). Besides the military subjects in which he peculiarly delighted, and which found an energetic response in the popular See also:heart, and kept alive a feeling of regret for the See also:recent past of the French nation and discontent with the See also:present,—a feeling which increased upon the artist himself towards the See also:close of his career,—Charlet designed many subjects of See also:town See also:life and See also:peasant life, the ways of See also:children, &c., with much wit and whim in the descriptive mottoes. One of the most famous sets is the " See also:Vie civile, politique, et militaire du Caporal Valentin," 50 lithographs, dating from 1838 to 1842. In 1838 his See also:health began to fail owing to an affection of the See also:chest. He died in Paris on the 3oth of See also:October 1845. Charlet was an uncommonly tall See also:man, with an expressive See also:face, bantering and See also:good natured; his See also:character corresponded, full of boyish fun and high See also:spirits, with manly See also:independence, and a vein of religious feeling, and he was a hearty favourite among his intimates, one of whom was the painter See also:Gericault. Charlet married in 1824, and two sons survived him. A life of Charlet was published in 1856 by a military friend, De la See also:Combe. (W. M. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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