French│Empire Collection
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A small private Napoleonic collection in Sydney, Australia
Prints
Napoleon in grand costume - 1805
Napoléon en grand costume - 1805
Napoleon in 'Grand Costume' seated on a globe of the world
Engraving
80 x 61cm
An allegorical design of Napoleon in state robes, seated on a throne mounted on top of a globe of the world. The original drawing in ‘crayon noir’ was done by Innocent Louis Goubaud in 1811 and is titled ‘Dessin allegorique à la gloire de S. M.
l’Empereur’ and is now held in the collection of the Fondation Napoléon in Paris.
