Null Nicolas Toussaint CHARLET. 1792-1845.
Napoleon questioning and reprimanding…

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Nicolas Toussaint CHARLET. 1792-1845. Napoleon questioning and reprimanding a councillor in charge of worship during the council Drawing for the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Las Cases, Tome 1, p. 157 Pencil on paper Signed lower right Charlet, Diameter: 10.5 cm Extract from Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Las Cases, p.157 A religious party was stirring up civil discord, secretly peddling and circulating papal bulls and letters. They were shown to a State Councillor in charge of worship, who, if he did not propagate them himself, at least did not stop or denounce their circulation. This came to light, and the Emperor suddenly challenged him in full council. What could have been your motive," he said, "Sir? Could it be your religious principles? Then why are you here? I'm not violating anyone's conscience. Did I take you by the collar to make you my State Councillor? You've asked me to do you a great favor. You're the youngest and perhaps the only one here without personal titles; I saw in you only the heir to your father's services. You made a personal oath to me; how can your religious feelings be reconciled with the manifest violation you have just made of it? However, speak up: you're here with your family, your comrades will judge you. Your fault is great, Sir! A material conspiracy is stopped as soon as you seize the arm that holds the dagger; but a moral conspiracy has no end, it's a trail of powder. By now, whole towns could be slaughtered because of you. The accused, confused, answered nothing; from the very first interpellation he had agreed to the fact. Almost the entire Council, for whom this event was unexpected, remained astonished and silent. Why," continued the Emperor, "in the obligation of your oath, have you not come to discover to me the culprit and his plot? Am I not affordable to each and every one of you? - Sire," ventured the respondent, "it was my cousin. - Your fault is all the greater, Monsieur," replied the Emperor sharply. Your relative could only have been placed at your request; from that moment on, you took all the responsibility. When I consider that someone is completely mine, as you are here, those who belong to them and those for whom they are responsible are, from that moment on, beyond the reach of any police force. These are my maxims. And as the culprit continued to say nothing: "The duties of a State Councillor towards me are immense," concluded the Emperor, "you have violated them, Sir, you are no longer a State Councillor. Get out, don't show your face here again! On his way out, as he passed by the Emperor's person, the Emperor said to him, casting his eyes on him: "I am sorry, Monsieur; for I have present the memory and services of your father."

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Nicolas Toussaint CHARLET. 1792-1845. Napoleon questioning and reprimanding a councillor in charge of worship during the council Drawing for the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Las Cases, Tome 1, p. 157 Pencil on paper Signed lower right Charlet, Diameter: 10.5 cm Extract from Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Las Cases, p.157 A religious party was stirring up civil discord, secretly peddling and circulating papal bulls and letters. They were shown to a State Councillor in charge of worship, who, if he did not propagate them himself, at least did not stop or denounce their circulation. This came to light, and the Emperor suddenly challenged him in full council. What could have been your motive," he said, "Sir? Could it be your religious principles? Then why are you here? I'm not violating anyone's conscience. Did I take you by the collar to make you my State Councillor? You've asked me to do you a great favor. You're the youngest and perhaps the only one here without personal titles; I saw in you only the heir to your father's services. You made a personal oath to me; how can your religious feelings be reconciled with the manifest violation you have just made of it? However, speak up: you're here with your family, your comrades will judge you. Your fault is great, Sir! A material conspiracy is stopped as soon as you seize the arm that holds the dagger; but a moral conspiracy has no end, it's a trail of powder. By now, whole towns could be slaughtered because of you. The accused, confused, answered nothing; from the very first interpellation he had agreed to the fact. Almost the entire Council, for whom this event was unexpected, remained astonished and silent. Why," continued the Emperor, "in the obligation of your oath, have you not come to discover to me the culprit and his plot? Am I not affordable to each and every one of you? - Sire," ventured the respondent, "it was my cousin. - Your fault is all the greater, Monsieur," replied the Emperor sharply. Your relative could only have been placed at your request; from that moment on, you took all the responsibility. When I consider that someone is completely mine, as you are here, those who belong to them and those for whom they are responsible are, from that moment on, beyond the reach of any police force. These are my maxims. And as the culprit continued to say nothing: "The duties of a State Councillor towards me are immense," concluded the Emperor, "you have violated them, Sir, you are no longer a State Councillor. Get out, don't show your face here again! On his way out, as he passed by the Emperor's person, the Emperor said to him, casting his eyes on him: "I am sorry, Monsieur; for I have present the memory and services of your father."

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Toussaint, Louis - Hermann Friedrich Louis Toussaint, 1826 Königsberg - 1887 Düsseldorf, from 1845 to 1851 Toussaint was a pupil of Ludwig Rosenfelder at the Königsberg Academy of Art, in 1851 he continued his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where Theodor Hildebrandt was his most important teacher until around 1852. After beginning with history painting, he switched to entertaining genre painting in the mid-1850s and created numerous depictions of children and families - often using sophisticated lighting effects - which he exhibited in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bremen, Hanover, Magdeburg and Leipzig and some of which were further disseminated through illustrations in magazines. Toussaint was mainly active in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the Malkasten artists' association; he is a master of entertaining, humorous genre scenes with a "virtuoso mastery of painting technique" (quote from the Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Maler); the present motif was reproduced on a blackpoint engraving by W. Metzing (cf. in Bötticher no. 15: Künstler, Knabe die Großmutter zeichnend). " Der junge Künstler", oil on canvas, genre-like interior scene with a grandmother and children painting a picture on the door of the house, unsigned, inscribed in the brass plate, on the reverse inscribed in the old adhesive label, stronger retouches, slightly dam. to the frame, c. 44x36cm, margins c. 65x56cm, ref.: Thieme- Becker, Bötticher, Paffrath (ed.), Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Maler, Werke in Museen zum Vergleich: Düsseldorf, Halle a.d. Saale, Rheine

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H. BELLANGÉ (1800-1866), Overgrown monument, around 1850, Pen drawing Hippolyte Bellangé (1800 Paris - 1866 ibid.): Overgrown monument, c. 1850, Pen drawing Technique: Pen drawing on Paper Inscription: monogrammed lower right: "ht. Bgé" Date: c. 1850 Description: What does a battle painter paint if he doesn't paint battles? Hippolyte Bellangé was one of the most important battle painters in the France of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. A huge oeuvre, filled with thousands of soldiers, weapons and horses, where man becomes mass. He is highly celebrated and highly decorated for these depictions of mega-events. But what he has not lost amidst all the painted sabre-rattling and dabbed gun smoke is his eye for detail. He was able to bring mass battles to life from a wide angle, but as if under a microscope, he was also able to perceive the fate of the individual soldier. Like his friend Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, he depicted the lives of soldiers away from battle in numerous lithographs and drawings, sometimes melancholically compassionate, sometimes caricaturingly distanced. But always with an eye for detail, which in his case was not limited to outward appearances, but sometimes also took on psychological traits. But now back to the initial question: What does he paint now? First of all, very little else. Even when he slips into the genre, there is always a uniform somewhere that has found its way into the picture in one way or another. All the more astonishing is our drawing, which shows a destroyed piece of Christian art in that incomparably nervous stroke. It has been decaying and forgotten for so long that nature has stretched out its delicate fingers towards it. The cross lies broken on the ground. It is hard to imagine that it can return to its former splendour. If we are familiar with Bellangé's focussed depictions, in which the maltreated soldiers who have returned home are depicted, we cannot help but recognise an emotional connotation in this broken monument. Broken and lonely: these are words that can also be applied to the soldiers. In addition to this emotional dimension, what is particularly fascinating about this small and incredibly free drawing is the trembling line that does not stop anywhere and flits across the sheet as if driven, from which the clear forms only slowly emerge, only to be swallowed up again in the next moment by another twitch of line. This dynamic, almost breathing process is the special charm of this drawing, which is unusual for Bellangé, but exciting precisely because of it. Keywords: Monument, wayside cross, cemetery, small architecture, sculpture, column, antiquity, figure, ruin, vanitas, 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, France, Size: Paper: 19,5 cm x 13,3 cm (7,7 x 5,2 in)

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