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The Empress Josephine in her coronation costume - 1804
 L'impératrice Josephine avec le Costume qu'ele portrait le Jour de Couronnement le II Frimaire AN

Napoleon in State costume

1805

20 x 12.5cm

A hand coloured engraving of Napoleon in his state robes from the book Cérémonial de l'Empire français -‘Ceromines of the French Empire’, published in 1805 as a record of the coronation and sacre.

The Empress Josephine in her coronation costume

J. Cherau, Rue St Jacques No 257

Circa 1804

31 x 21cm

Hand coloured engraving of the Empress Josephine ‘L'impératrice Josephine avec le Costume qu'ele portrait le Jour de Couronnement le II Frimaire AN 13, in her coronation costume, wearing a tiara and her imperial crown