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Murat Presents the Colors Taken in Italy, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
£165
$220 · €195
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. Browning along the lower edge. Printed image clean.
- Collection
- Battle scenes
- Era
- 1790 to 1815, Napoleonic wars
- Stock no.
- BG-14174-3-9
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 Murat presenting the treaty of Cherasco and the captured colors to the Directory, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered DRAPEAUX PRIS EN ITALIE in open capitals above the image. A tall hall lit by chandeliers and torchères, the Directors in classical robes seated and standing on a dais at the left, and Murat in a fur trimmed pelisse presenting the treaty at the right of center while grenadiers hold up a forest of captured standards.
The printed caption below the image reads: Murat présente au Directoire le traité de Cherasco et les drapeaux pris en Italie. In English: Murat presents to the Directory the treaty of Cherasco and the colors taken in Italy.
This plate belongs to the two volume Vie de Napoléon published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, with a text compiled from the documents Napoleon dictated on Saint Helena. The plates were drawn on stone by Jean-Baptiste Madou, and the sheets have long been collected singly as well as in the bound work.
Murat carried the armistice of Cherasco and the first trophies of the Italian campaign to Paris in May 1796, and the plate records the formal costume of the Directors in some detail. The sheet is a crayon lithograph, black on cream wove paper and uncolored, and the modeling of smoke, cloth and sky shows how much Madou could draw from a medium still new in his day.
Condition: Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Browning along the lower edge. 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.
