Album with Plates from "Translation des Cendres de l'Empereur Napoléon de Saint-Hélène a Paris"
Album containing 7 out of a series comprised of 15 lithographs depicting the translation of the remains of Emperor Napoleon from the Island of Saint Helen to Paris in 1840. The plates appear to have been bound out of order and contain one plate from a different series of the same year, 'Funérailles de l'Empereur Napoléon'. The subjects represented are : 'Le Bateau Catafalque de Napoléon'; 'Le Char Funèbre de Napoléon'; 'Entrée du Convoi de Napoléon à Paris'; 'Débarquement des Cendres de Napoléon'; 'Arrivée du Cortège Funèbre de Napoléon aux Invalides'; 'Passage du Cortège dans les Champs Élysées'; 'Catafalque et Chapelle Ardente de Napoléon'.
Artwork Details
- Title: Album with Plates from "Translation des Cendres de l'Empereur Napoléon de Saint-Hélène a Paris"
- Artist: Victor Adam (French, 1801–1866)
- Artist: Louis Pierre Alphonse Bichebois (French, 1801–1850)
- Artist: Ferogio (François Fortuné Antoine) (1805–1888)
- Artist: Alexis François Girard (French, Vincennes 1787–1870 Paris)
- Lithographer: Jean Baptiste Arnout (French, 1788–after 1865)
- Lithographer: Jules Arnout (French, 1814–1868)
- Lithographer: Henry Barthélémy Coulon (et Cie) (French, Bercy 1795–1851 Paris (?))
- Publisher: Henri-Jules Jeannin (French, Paris 1802–1854)
- Publisher: Victor Delarue (French, active 1830-40)
- Date: 1840
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 9/16 in. (40 x 55 x 1.4 cm)
- Classifications: Albums, Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Herbert S. Polin, 1955
- Object Number: 55.636
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
early 19th century
Multiple artists/makers
[ca. 1840]
Victor Adam
Aubert et Cie
n.d.
Victor Adam
Charles Boivin
n.d.
Victor Adam
Lordereau
after 1814
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