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Le Cheval de Bataille de Napoleon. From Victor Adam's Retour en France des Depouilles Mortelles de Napoleon.

Bonaparte, Napoleon; Adam, Victor

  • Publisher: Jeannin
  • Published: 1840
  • Condition: Good
Jeannin. [BONAPARTE, Napoleon] ADAM, Victor. Le Cheval de Bataille de Napoleon. Paris, Jeannin, [1840]. Large folio lithograph, 510 x 355 mm. Blind-stamped. Dessine d'apres nature au cortege funebre le 15 Decembre 1840 et lithographie par Victor Adam. Printed by Lemercier, Bernard et Cie. Moderate overall toning; scattered spotting; tiny marginal tear to lower edge; some handling and age wear. Good. Original lithograph from Victor Adam's Retour en France des Depouilles Mortelles de Napoleon, the celebrated suite documenting the Retour des Cendres ceremonies of 1840. The plate depicts Napoleon's riderless battle horse draped in imperial funerary cloth during the funeral procession held in Paris following the return of the emperor's remains from St Helena. Published by Jeannin of the Place du Louvre and issued as part of the original first edition series of twenty large-format lithographs commemorating the repatriation ceremonies. . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1840.

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