Review Of General Bonaparte 1st Consul At The Tuileries, Great Napoleonic Engraving Vernet & Isabey

Large engraving from the Empire Consulate period presenting a review of General Bonaparte 1st Consul in Year IX (1800), also called Revue du Décadi or Revue du Quintidi, after the work of Jean Baptiste Isabey and Carle Vernet, engraved by Louis Pauquet and finished by Mécou. This scene is of course very well known and appreciated by collectors of the Empire. It is a very large format, presented in a very rich Empire frame from the 1820-1830 period gilded with gold leaf. Beautiful print - stamp, lower left below the signature Isabey & Vernet, with a very fine engraving, many details. It presents many historical and artistic interests: all the great officers of the Consulate, future Marshals of the Empire are represented and well recognizable, the features natural. The Carnavalet museum presents in its collections a captioned facsimile, which allows to name each of the great officers prancing saber in the light in their colorful uniforms. The First Consul is in the center, represented with the thin features of his youth. Amusing detail: General Bonaparte's white horse is the only living being that looks at the painter. The scene takes place in the courtyard of the Tuileries (the disappeared palace visible on the left), on the site of the arc du Carroussel which was not yet built at that time, as well as the future rue de Rivoli before the Napoleonic wing is not built nor the beautiful neoclassical buildings on arcades that we know today. Only and well recognizable is the Royal Palace, prior to the stage. Beautiful large format piece, good addition to an Empire collection. Beautiful frame in wood and stucco gilded with gold leaf cleaned by our gilder and without any lack. Engraving cleaned in an acid bath to restore its original freshness, old traces of restorations. We presented it in a royal blue pass which matches well with the gold frame. Other Napoleonic engravings to come in the coming months with the same finishes, so as to gradually constitute a coherent whole. Width: 113.5cm Height: 97cm The "window" of the engraving is 94.5 by 64cm