Grottes d'Osselles: Le Tombeau (Osselles Caves: The Tomb) Artist: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (French, 1792–1845)
Artist: Jean Lubin Vauzelle (French, 1776–after 1837)
Printer: Godefroy Engelmann (French, born Germany, 1788–1839)
Publisher: Isidore Justin Severin Taylor (le Baron Taylor) (French, 1789–1879)

1829

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

The French lithographer Nicolas Toussaint Charlet studied in the atelier of Baron Gros and collaborated with Théodore Géricault. These are two of his topographical illustrations commissioned for the publication Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France, a survey of the landscapes of the French provinces. Such topographical lithography enjoyed great popularity in both France and England during the first half of the nineteenth century. Here Charlet represents grottoes from the Osselles region in eastern France. Their winding, cavernous interiors pull the eye inward—into the imagined depths of the landscape.

Medium

Lithograph on chine collé

Dimensions

image: 13 13/16 × 11 3/8 in. (35.1 × 28.9 cm)
sheet (chine collé): 15 3/8 × 12 1/16 in. (39.1 × 30.6 cm)
sheet: 19 1/4 × 12 3/8 in. (48.9 × 31.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Renée and Geoffrey Hartman, Ph.D. 1953

Accession Number

2012.99.3.2

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Renée and Geoffrey Hartman, Hamden, Conn., to 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), landscapes (representations), lithographs

Subject

caves explorers geology men

Inscriptions

Below image, BC: Grottes d'Osselles / Le Tombeau / France Comtél; LL: J Taylor 1829; LR: Lith de Engelmann\r\nUR, above image: P. 114\r\nBelow image, BL, graphite: illegible; BR: Osselles $170\r\n

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