Napoleon Bonaparte. Messina. Ney. Murat. Kleber.
John Tallis & Company, London & New York. [n.d., c.1855.]
Steel engraving with small margins. 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½").
A head and shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte with four smaller portraits of his generals: Marshal André Masséna (17580817), out of favour by Napoleon's abdication, so survived the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; Marshal Michel Ney (17690815), executed for treason after Waterloo; Marshal Joachim-Napoléon Murat (17670815), Bonaparte's brother-in-law, executed in Italy; and General Jean Baptiste Kléber (17530800), assassinated in Cairo
[Ref: 36010] £45.00
Steel engraving with small margins. 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½").
A head and shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte with four smaller portraits of his generals: Marshal André Masséna (17580817), out of favour by Napoleon's abdication, so survived the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; Marshal Michel Ney (17690815), executed for treason after Waterloo; Marshal Joachim-Napoléon Murat (17670815), Bonaparte's brother-in-law, executed in Italy; and General Jean Baptiste Kléber (17530800), assassinated in Cairo
[Ref: 36010] £45.00