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Bonaparte at Lonato, Eight Minutes, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
$220
€195 · £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-14174-3-17
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 delivering his ultimatum to an Austrian officer at Lonato in 1796, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered BONAPARTE A LONATO above the image. An Austrian officer in a white coat, hat in hand, stands at the left beside his French escort, while Bonaparte, in front of an awning stretched beneath a tree, points at him with his staff gathered at the right.
The script caption below the image reads: Dites à votre général que si dans 8 minutes il n'a pas posé les armes, je ne fais grâce à personne. In English: Tell your general that if he has not laid down his arms within eight minutes, I will spare no one.
Jean-Baptiste Madou, who lived from 1796 to 1877, was a Brussels lithographer who later made his name as a painter of genre scenes. Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827 in two volumes by Marcellin Jobard's Lithographie royale, belongs to the first decade of his career.
Lonato is the celebrated bluff of the Italian campaign, a general with only a small force about him demanding the surrender of the larger column that had come upon him, and the ultimatum is lettered on the sheet word for word. The printing is lithographic, black on wove paper, and the sheet is uncolored.
Condition: Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
The oblong format hangs well over a desk or a mantelpiece, and because the plates share one format and one style of lettering, a group bought together reads as a set rather than as an assortment.
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.
