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Treaty of Leoben, Belgium Ceded to France, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
£185
$245 · €220
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Light wear to the bottom left corner; minor nicks to the left edge. 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-14174-3-30
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 preliminaries of Leoben, from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered TRAITÉ DE LÉOBEN in open capitals above the image. A draped hall opening through arches onto a palace, a map spread over the table, Bonaparte standing at the left with his hand raised and the Austrian plenipotentiaries in court dress with sashes and orders at the right.
The printed caption below the image reads: Bonaparte conclut avec l'empereur d'Allemagne un traité par lequel la Belgique est cédée à la France. In English: Bonaparte concludes with the Emperor of Germany a treaty by which Belgium is ceded to France.
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard, in two volumes, with a text by a society of men of letters drawn from the documents Napoleon dictated and corrected on Saint Helena. The plates are the work of Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877), the leading Belgian lithographer of his generation, who worked closely with Jobard in the 1820s.
For a work printed in Brussels the cession of Belgium in April 1797 was a matter of direct local history, and the caption states it plainly, which gives the plate a particular Belgian interest. 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: Light wear to the bottom left corner; minor nicks to the left edge. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
Framed simply, with a generous mat to let the wide margins show, the plate suits a study, a paneled dining room or a corridor, and it sits naturally beside other Napoleonic material such as campaign maps and portraits of the marshals.
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.
