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NAPOLEON TRANSFORMATION PRINT Canu (Dominique Étienne) Il s'en-va cette fois pour tout de bon. [He
NAPOLEON TRANSFORMATION PRINT
Canu (Dominique Étienne) Il s'en-va cette fois pour tout de bon. [He goes this time for good.] [Paris, c.1815.]
Hand-coloured etching dissected into eight strips, showing Napoleon Bonaparte at a quayside with his back turned to the viewer, about to board a ship. This image disappears into slits when a tab (here lacking) at the verso is pulled, revealing a portrait of the restored King Louis XVIII; the caption, purposely ambiguous, becomes 'Vive le Roi'. The Fleurs-de-lys and crown of the Bourbon dynasty in a frame below.
Napoleon escaped from his first exile and after final defeat at Waterloo in June 1815 was sent to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena (where he remained until he died). Canu was the publisher of some Bonapartist propaganda prints. He is responsible for a series of figures of the Bourbon restoration on moving parts in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (see notice no. FRBNF40359956).
A little soiled and stained, otherwise in very reasonable condition.
Canu (Dominique Étienne) Il s'en-va cette fois pour tout de bon. [He goes this time for good.] [Paris, c.1815.]
Hand-coloured etching dissected into eight strips, showing Napoleon Bonaparte at a quayside with his back turned to the viewer, about to board a ship. This image disappears into slits when a tab (here lacking) at the verso is pulled, revealing a portrait of the restored King Louis XVIII; the caption, purposely ambiguous, becomes 'Vive le Roi'. The Fleurs-de-lys and crown of the Bourbon dynasty in a frame below.
Napoleon escaped from his first exile and after final defeat at Waterloo in June 1815 was sent to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena (where he remained until he died). Canu was the publisher of some Bonapartist propaganda prints. He is responsible for a series of figures of the Bourbon restoration on moving parts in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (see notice no. FRBNF40359956).
A little soiled and stained, otherwise in very reasonable condition.
Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £300
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