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Napoleon II sits in his cradle at center with his father, Napoleon I, at left and mother, Marie Louise, at right. He has an adult face that resembles his father. Josephine holding a wine glass in a bed behind them at right and a nurse holding a large syringe in front of her.
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Title: Boney The Second or the Little Babboon Created to Devour French Monkies
Artist:
Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg (British, London 1776–1846 London)
Subject:
Napoléon Bonaparte (French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena)
Subject:
Joséphine Bonaparte (French, Trois-Îlets, Martinique 1763–1814 Malmaison)
Subject:
Empress Marie Louise of France (1791–1847)
Subject:
Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt (French, Paris 1811–1832 Vienna)
Published in: London
Date: April 9, 1811
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 11/16 in. (25 × 34.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number: 59.533.1422
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