1824
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Lithographic Sketches: It is the End of the World! (frontispiece) is a 1824 by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a scene with the words "It is the End of the World!". The artist made it in 1824, a time when lithography was becoming popular. Lithography was a new technique that allowed artists to mass-produce their work, which was exciting but also overwhelming. Check out the work of artist: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (French, 1792–1845) for more like this.
The museum's extensive collection of early lithography documents the development of the technique in Europe. Invented by a German, Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), in 1798 for commercial purposes, lithography was quickly adopted by artists. Lithography did not begin in France until 1816, however, when two workshops were established in Paris. By 1824 so many lithographs were being produced that a deluge of lithographic albums could end the world!
Read the full account in the museum source.
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet was a French painter and printmaker, more especially of military subjects.
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