Intaglio engraving, based on a design by painter and lithographer Victor Adam, celebrating the life of the Emperor in a rainbow haloing the statue of Napoleon erected in 1833 by Louis-Philippe I atop the Vendôme column.
Accompanied by Casimir Delavigne's verses from “À Napoléon” in “Les Messéniennes, Livre II” (1835).
Ton souffle du chaos faisait sortir les lois ; / Ton image insultait aux dépouilles des rois. / Et, debout sur l'airain de leurs foudres guerrieres, / Entretenait le ciel du bruit de tes exploits.
A Paris chez Dopter, rue St Jacques, No. 21
Condition: stains and foxing
Framed and under glass
max. dimensions: 34.5 x 40 cm