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Crossing the Tagliamento, the Line Advances, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
£155
$205 · €185
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Light wear to the bottom left 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-14174-3-28
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 crossing of the Tagliamento, from Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered PASSAGE DU TAGLIAMENTO in capitals above the image. Bonaparte and his staff ride out across the center of the sheet while infantry press forward at the left past a fallen soldier, and beyond them the fighting runs along the far bank of the river under towering banks of cloud and gun smoke.
The printed caption below the image reads: Le 16, toute la ligne se mit en mouvement, passa le Tagliamento, et malgré les efforts de l'ennemi, l'armée fut bientôt audelà du fleuve. In English: On the 16th the whole line moved off and crossed the Tagliamento, and despite the efforts of the enemy the army was soon beyond the river.
Vie de Napoléon appeared at Brussels in 1827, in two volumes, from the Lithographie royale de Jobard. 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, and its lithographs are credited to Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877), then at the start of a long career as Belgium's leading genre painter.
The crossing on 16 March 1797 opened the advance through the Alps toward Vienna against the Archduke Charles, the campaign that ended in the preliminaries of Leoben. The banked cloud and smoke filling the upper half of the sheet is some of the finest drawing in the series. 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 left corner. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
A single sheet frames well in a plain dark molding with a wide off white mat, and three or four plates from the series hung together make 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.
