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[Retour des cendres] Funérailles de l'Empereur Napoléon. Transbordement a Cherbourg.
[Retour des cendres] Funérailles de l'Empereur Napoléon. Transbordement a Cherbourg. 10 Décembre 1840.
Peint et Lith part Morel Fatio. Lith. Coulon et C.ie e. richer 7.
Paris. Publié par Victor Delarue Editeur Place de Louve 10.
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 280 x 350mm (11 x 13¾"), very large margins. Slight central crease. Holes within plate mark but not image.
The coffin of Napoleon Bonaparte being transferred from 'Belle-Poule' to steamer 'La Normandie' to be carried from Cherbourg to Val-de-la-Haye at the mouth of the Seine. In 1840 the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte were disinterred from his tomb on St Helena and brought back to Paris for burial in the Hôtel des Invalides, an event known as the 'Retour des cendres' (Return of the Ashes). One of seven scenes in the series 'Funérailles de l'Empereur Napoléon'.
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