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The Ashes of Turenne Borne to the Invalides, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
£185
$245 · €220
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Fair. Light wear to the bottom right corner. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins, more toward the top right. A small brown mark in the left margin. A brown stain in the lower right margin below the caption, with a faint tide line running up toward the image. Faint pencil marks near the top edge. Printed image clean.
- Collection
- Battle scenes
- Era
- 1790 to 1815, Napoleonic wars
- Stock no.
- BG-14174-3-60
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 from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827, lettered "LES CENDRES DE TURENNE" in open capitals above the image. A tall funeral car, its plinth inscribed "AUX MANES DE TURENNE." and crowned by a draped urn among standards, is drawn by a team of white horses toward the domed church of the Invalides, which rises at the right. Old soldiers in bicornes walk beside the car, a crowd and troops line the square, and in the right foreground spectators bare their heads while one man kneels.
The caption below the image reads: "Les cendres du plus grand capitaine qui ait existé sous l'ancienne monarchie sont solennellement transportées dans le temple de l'honneur et confiées aux vétérans de la gloire française." In English: The ashes of the greatest captain who lived under the old monarchy are solemnly carried into the temple of honor and entrusted to the veterans of French glory.
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard. Its title page describes a text written by a society of men of letters from new documents dictated and corrected by Napoleon at Saint Helena, with plates lithographed by the Belgian artist Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877) after the first painters of the French school. This plate comes from the first volume, which runs from Brienne to the camp of Boulogne.
Marshal Turenne was killed at Sasbach in 1675 and buried among the kings at Saint-Denis. His remains survived the desecration of the royal tombs in 1793 and were later kept in Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments. By order of the First Consul they were moved to the church of the Invalides in a ceremony in September 1800, during the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Republic.
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, more toward the top right. A small brown mark in the left margin. A brown stain in the lower right margin below the caption, with a faint tide line running up toward the image. Faint pencil marks near the top edge. Printed image clean.
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.
