Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet Watercolour Study Of A Young Woman

Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet Watercolour Study Of A Young WomanNicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1792 1845. French School. 19th Century. Pencil and brown wash drawing 'Study of a Woman Standing Full Length', Circa. 1830. Signed lower right, and inscribed on a label verso, 33 x 20. 3cm. Provenance: with John Mitchell and Son, London. Born in Paris, Charlet studied under Antoine Jean Gros (1771 1835). He visited London in 1820 with his fellow artist and friend Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gricault (1791 1824). Both being

and on 12 February 1855 was elected an associate of the Old Water Colour Society becoming a full member in 1858 and an honorary retired member in 1897

Plate 46 in the catalogue published by Demarteau's nephew in 1788

Printed on wove paper

Bewick and Jackson

Ambrose Heal Collection label to reverse

and in the 1830s he journeyed west five times to record

Watercolour and stump over pencil

Sanguine stipple engraving by William Wynn Ryland Published London 1777

She bore the King one child

Signed and dated December 1820

and Richard Crosse

HMS Hyacinth and HMS Volage engaging Chinese War Junks