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Conferences of Udine Broken Off, Then War, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
$205
€185 · £155
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-14174-3-32
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 breaking off the negotiations at Udine in 1797, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered CONFÉRENCES D'UDINE INTERROMPUES (Conferences of Udine Interrupted) above the image. At night, Bonaparte strides out on the steps of a building beneath a statue in a niche while an Austrian negotiator in a white coat reaches for his arm, a sentry stands under a lantern at the left and a carriage waits at the right with its lamp lit and the moon above.
The script caption below the image reads: Refuser des conditions raisonnables, dit Bonaparte, c'est vouloir la guerre; eh bien la guerre! In English: To refuse reasonable terms, said Bonaparte, is to want war; very well, war!
Vie de Napoléon was issued at Brussels in 1827 in two volumes by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard, with a text compiled by a society of men of letters from the documents Napoleon dictated and corrected at Saint Helena. Its plates were drawn on stone by Jean-Baptiste Madou.
The scene is lit by a wall lantern, a carriage lamp and the moon, a demanding subject for the stone, and the talks it shows ended soon after in the treaty of Campo Formio of October 1797. The image is a lithograph printed in black on wove paper, worked in soft crayon grain with no engraved line and no plate mark, 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.
A single sheet from this series frames well in a plain dark molding with a wide off-white mat, and a row of three or four hung together makes a coherent wall for a study, a library or a hallway.
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.
