Napoleon, when First Consul, & Madame Josephine, (His First Wife) in the Garden at Malmaison.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the Original Portraits executed by Isabey, Miniature Painter to Napoleon.
Published Nov 26, 1824 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, album paper stuck over left edge.
Jean-Baptiste Isabey's portrait of Napoleon at Malmaison, with the addition of a portrait of Josephine. She bought the chateau in 1799 and retained it when the pair divorced in 1810. Josephine died in 1814; after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo he stayed at Malmaison until he fled from the Prussians sent to arrest him. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53346] £140.00
Published Nov 26, 1824 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, album paper stuck over left edge.
Jean-Baptiste Isabey's portrait of Napoleon at Malmaison, with the addition of a portrait of Josephine. She bought the chateau in 1799 and retained it when the pair divorced in 1810. Josephine died in 1814; after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo he stayed at Malmaison until he fled from the Prussians sent to arrest him. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53346] £140.00