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Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon in Egypt, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
$295
€265 · £225
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-14174-3-38
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 the battle of the Pyramids, July 1798, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered BATAILLE DES PYRAMIDES (Battle of the Pyramids) above the image. The general on a white horse, with palms rising behind him and his mounted staff at the right, points toward the pyramids on the horizon, while a fallen Mameluke lies in the foreground, infantry with a drummer stand at the left and the ranks fire in the middle distance.
The script caption below the image reads: Dans cette mémorable bataille la perte des Français n'excéda pas 160 hommes, tandis que celle de l'ennemi passa 3000. In English: In this memorable battle the French losses did not exceed 160 men, while those of the enemy passed 3,000.
The work appeared at Brussels in 1827 under the imprint of the Lithographie royale de Jobard, in two volumes. Its title describes a text written by a society of men of letters from the new documents dictated and corrected at Saint Helena by Napoleon himself. The plates are by Jean-Baptiste Madou, then in his early thirties.
The battle of the Pyramids is one of the defining images of the Egyptian expedition, and the caption gives the casualty figures as the French account of the day recorded them. It is printed from the stone in black on a cream wove sheet, the tone built from crayon rather than from cut line, and it is uncolored.
Condition: Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
Framed simply, with a generous mat to let the wide margins show, the plate suits a study, a paneled dining room or a hallway, and it sits naturally beside other Napoleonic material such as campaign maps and portraits of the marshals.
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.
