Napoleon 1er. Emperor des Français, et Roi d'Italie. Né a Ajaccio le 15 Aout 1769, Sacré et Coronné, le 11 Frimaire, An 13.
Bonneville del. et sculp.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Stipple. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½").
An oval portrait of a chiseled Napoleon in imperial robes. He was crowned King of Italy in 1805, the last year that the Republican Calendar was used (other than by the brief Paris Commune in 1871.)
[Ref: 36018] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
The Latest Portrait of Napoleon. (On Board the Bellerophon) Painted by C.L. Eastlake R.A. in 1815.
Eng.d by J. Roberts from the Original Picture by C.L. Eastlake, R.A.
Published exclusively in the Art-Journal
Engaving, sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed; unidentified 'R.J.' collector's stamp verso.
Detail of Charles Eastlake's full-length portrait of Napoleon in the uniform of the Chasseurs, on board the Bellerophon with soldiers around him. Eastlake's painting was enormously popular when first exhibited in 1815 and established the painter's reputation. The painting is now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Collector's stamp not in Lugt.
[Ref: 41420] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Emperor Napoleon]
After Jean-Desire Muneret.
[n.d. after 1815].
Engraving. 140 x 100m (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album paper. Foxed.
Bust portrait of Napoleon as Emperor in a roundel. Engraved after Jean-Desire Muneret, a French Old Master active in the early 19th century and renowed for his minature portraits. Muneret painted Napoleon's portrait in April 1815, during the '100 days' between Napoleon's return from Elba and the Battle of Waterloo.
[Ref: 55843] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
[Napoleon on his Death Bed.]
Horace Vernet.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 175 x 205mm (7 x 8''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Napoleon (1769-1821) on his deathbed on St. Helena. After the original oil painting by Horace Vernet painted in 1823.
[Ref: 49113] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Napoleon.
W. Palmer Sculp.
Published by George Smeeton, 17, St. Martin's Lane, May 1st, 1819.
Stipple, rare. Sheet size: 395 x 270mm (15½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate at three edges.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) in full coronation robes, wearing the 'crown of Charlemagne'.
[Ref: 39048] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Emperor Napoleon I.
Inventor and Patentee G. Baxter, 11 & 12 Northampton Square [embossed stamp below image]
Baxter print with large margins; very fine, image 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"), sheet 205 x 165mm (8 x 6½"). Uncut.
Colour print of Napoleon when Emperor (1804-14), taken from a miniature and printed by George Baxter (1804 - 1867), wood-engraver, colour printer and lithographer; patentee of a method of colour printing for which he sold licences. C.L. 224; Ball and Martin p.156
[Ref: 36762] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Napoleon. (Retraite de Russie.) Ne a Ajaccio, le 15 Aout 1769. mort a S.te Helene, le 5 Mai 1821.
V. Adam del. Lith de Lemercier.
a Paris, chez Rittner et Goupil b.ard Montmartre No.12. London published by Ch. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, sheet 535 x 365mm (21 x 14½"), with publisher's blind stamp. Repaired tear.
Portrait of Napoleon on horseback retreating from Russia with the Grande Armée before they separated on 5 December 1812.
[Ref: 55933] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Napoleon in St. Helena]
[n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured lithograph. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform relaxing against a rock. He holds a book in his left hand while the other is in his signature pose. His hat and gloves rest next to him.
[Ref: 55928] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[The Statue of Napoleon on the Vendôme Column.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 225 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼").
The second statue of Napoleon to top the Vendôme Column, him depicting him in a tricorn hat, boots and a redingote (riding coat), as erected by Louis-Philippe I (reigned 1830-46) The column, based on Trajan's Column in Rome, was completed in 1810 with a statue of Napoleon as a Roman emperor, which was melted down after the Bourbon restoration. A third, classical statue was installed by Louis-Napoléon when first President of France (1846-52), which was destroyed when the Paris Commune pulled the whole column down in 1871. Three years later the column was rebuilt with a copy of the original statue.
[Ref: 55820] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)