Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

can employ when speaking Of Charlet
although most of his art Was exercised
in TYPOGRAPHY. The man whose pit
lures were referred to by Baron
Gerard in 1927 in the following Ian
guage: Call it what you will, ther-
is genius in them" deserves to be called
painter. The admirers Of Charlet
called him the ''Moliere OF the barracks
and of the drinking shops" He con
tlibuted not little to bring into fash
ion. and 10 make people understand the
charm OF the process invented by Sen
efelder, drawing On stone; that Is, lith-
cgriphy.
Abner's father
The Lithography society have issued
an appeal to the museums and pri-
vate collectors to collect the works OF
Charlet ia one exposition. The profits
Of this exposition will be devoted to
The foundation of a fund for the statue
which they desire to raise.
Charlet was the son of a common
dragon of the army of Sambre-et-
Meuse, who, at his death, left him a
fortune consisting Of a pair of leather
-0reeches and a pair Of boots worn out
by long campaigns. Young Toussalnt
Charlet was brought up by his mother
in the admiration Of the uniform and Of
great sabre strokes
In the year 1914 he was employed
as an Incorporated" in the national
guard. and he took part in ne defence
of the Barriere de Clichy. In his cele
brated picture which bears that name,
Vernet represents him. He is the tall
fellow. overreaching the others by a
full head, who is charging his gun in
the background, near the group where
the citizen soldiers Of the second legion,
and among them tie two Venets, are
In action. The restoration discharged
1 Charlet from his little office, which had
| the effect Of throwing him still further
/ into the opposition. He became its
caricaturist. lust as Beranger became
! its singer. He actually wrote history
! from day to day. His subjects, always
/ familiar. and treated with a good
4 humor which sometimes reaches the
/ lyrical, have remained, as It were the
I expression Of an epoch. Every one
! knows The First Fire, The Second
Fire, The Painful Farewell, A Carica-
/ ture of Louis XVIII, The Grenadier Of
| Waterloo, The Flag, and many others.
In an article in the Revue DIES Deux
/ Mondes, Delacroix said of him: Il do
not hesitate to place him in the paint
/ ing of character by the side of Moliere,
La Fontaine, and, La Bruyere. 1t is
| difficult to find any one who can be
preferred to him among the great mas
ters, as regards simplicity of concep-
ton and breadth Of design"
This praise may appear to US little
exaggerated today; but Charlet, never
theleSs, was able To formulate in his
| Autographs a movement which is hard
" over yet, and he knew how to start
IL better than anybody else. In this
sense he deserves to have a place by
the side of the great carciturist and to
have his bust upon public place.
Hippolyte Boranger, another litho-
grapher, in one Of his compositions,
made Immediately after the death OF
Charlet, represents him simply decorat.
ed by a pallet and photographic stone
A soldier kneelng has finished this in.
scription: TO Chariot, the people
Around him are the veterans Of all
branches of the service, A Sister OF
Charity and a gentleman who resembles
Beragner extend toward the bust then
hands loaded with flowers.
The public are somewhat forgcttul
/ Napoleon l. exists today only in histon
cal and academical discussions, No
body has any hope Of the return OF
another one" But it is a good thing
for the photographers to remember &
master in their art.