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Audience to the Savants, Monge and Berthollet, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
€195
$220 · £165
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
- Collection
- Battle scenes
- Era
- 1790 to 1815, Napoleonic wars
- Stock no.
- BG-14174-3-12
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
An original antique lithograph of Bonaparte receiving the commissioners sent to collect works of art and science in Italy, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered AUDIENCE DONNÉE AUX SAVANS in open capitals above the image. A columned and vaulted gallery in which four men in dark civilian coats are received by the general, who raises his hat to them, with officers and a hussar standing at the right.
The printed caption below the image reads: Monge, Bertholet, Berthelemi et Kreutzer sont chargés de recueillir en Italie tous les objets d'art et de science. In English: Monge, Berthollet, Berthélemy and Kreutzer are charged with collecting in Italy all the objects of art and science.
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard, in two volumes, with a text by a society of men of letters drawn from the documents Napoleon dictated and corrected on Saint Helena. The plates are the work of Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877), the leading Belgian lithographer of his generation, who worked closely with Jobard in the 1820s.
The plate records the commission that sent the paintings, sculpture and manuscripts of Italy to Paris in 1796 and 1797, and it names its members, so it belongs with the history of the Louvre's collections as much as with the campaign. The sheet is a crayon lithograph, black on cream wove paper and uncolored, and the modeling of smoke, cloth and sky shows how much Madou could draw from a medium still new in his day.
Condition: Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
This is a print that rewards being hung at eye level where the caption can be read, and it makes a natural gift for a reader of Napoleonic history or a collector of military prints.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
