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Lyon Rebuilt, the Place Bellecour, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
€220
$245 · £185
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. A pencil note in the top right corner. Printed image clean.
- Collection
- Battle scenes
- Era
- 1790 to 1815, Napoleonic wars
- Stock no.
- BG-14174-3-58
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 Napoleon laying the first stone of the rebuilt facades of the Place Bellecour at Lyon in 1800, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered RUINES DE LION RELEVÉES (The Ruins of Lyon Rebuilt) above the image. Napoleon stands on foot at the center among the city's dignitaries as the stone is presented, workmen handle blocks at the left, a mounted officer rides in at the right and a crowd and troops fill the square between tall houses.
The script caption below the image reads: Napoléon, au milieu des acclamations de 50 mille Lyonnais, pose la première pierre d'une des façades de la place Bellecour, démolies en 1793. In English: Napoleon, amid the cheers of fifty thousand people of Lyon, lays the first stone of one of the facades of the Place Bellecour, demolished in 1793.
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 facades of the square were pulled down in the repression of Lyon in 1793, and the plate is a city view of real interest to anyone collecting Lyon. 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: Light wear to the bottom right corner. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. A pencil note in the top right corner. 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.
