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Convention of Alessandria, Melas Yields, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
€195
$220 · £165
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Light wear to the bottom right corner. 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-14174-3-57
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 convention of Alessandria, from Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered CONV.on D'ALEXANDRIE in capitals above the image. General Berthier, standing at the left in a plumed hat, hands the signed document to the First Consul, who sits on a chair beside a table and drum before a stand of captured colors; officers wait at the right in front of a striped marquee, and a campfire smolders in the foreground.
The printed caption below the image reads: Le g.l Berthier présente au premier Consul la convention par laquelle le feld-maréchal Mélas lui abandonne le Piémont, la Lombardie, la Ligourie, les légations et toutes les places fortes de ces provinces. In English: General Berthier presents to the First Consul the convention by which Field Marshal Melas gives up to him Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, the Legations and all the fortresses of those provinces.
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 in two volumes by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard, with a text written by a society of men of letters from the new documents dictated and corrected by Napoleon himself at Saint Helena. Its lithographs are credited to Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877), who later became the best known Belgian genre painter of his generation.
The convention was signed at Alessandria on 15 June 1800, the day after Marengo, and it returned northern Italy to French control without another battle. The plate is an unusual record of a settlement concluded in the field under canvas rather than in a palace. It is a crayon lithograph printed in black, uncolored as issued, with the lettered title above the image and the caption in script below.
Condition: Light wear to the bottom right corner. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
Hung at eye level where the caption can be read, the plate makes a natural gift for a reader of Napoleonic history or a collector of early lithography.
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.
