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Crossing the Mincio, General Gardanne, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
£155
$205 · €185
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-14174-3-14
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 forcing of the river Mincio in 1796, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered PASSAGE DU MINCIO (Passage of the Mincio) above the image. Bonaparte, cloaked, points to the left from beneath a great spreading tree with his staff around him, an officer waves his hat beside him, a fallen horse and rider lie at the left and the fighting goes on in the smoke of the left distance.
The script caption below the image reads: Une cinquantaine de soldats commandés par le général Gardanne, se jettent dans le Mincio. Les Autrichiens, croyant voir la terrible colonne de Lodi, n'osent pas l'attendre. In English: Some fifty soldiers commanded by General Gardanne throw themselves into the Mincio. The Austrians, believing they see the terrible column of Lodi, do not dare to wait for it.
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 great tree that fills the upper half of the sheet is a fine piece of landscape drawing in its own right and carries the composition as much as the figures do. 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.
