Large Napoleonic engraving: review of General Bonaparte 1st Consul at the Tuileries, Vernet Isabey

Large engraving from the Consulate Empire period showing a review of General Bonaparte 1st Consul in the 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 and is a very large format, presented in a very rich Empire frame with palmettes from the 1820-1830 period. Beautiful print - stamp, bottom 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 clearly recognizable, with natural features. The Carnavalet Museum presents in its collections a captioned facsimile, which allows to name each of the great officers prancing with sabres drawn in their brightly colored uniforms. The First Consul is in the center, represented with the thin features of his youth. Amusing detail, the white horse of General Bonaparte 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 was built nor the beautiful neoclassical buildings on arcades that we know today. The only and clearly recognizable one is the Palais Royal, prior to the scene.

A beautiful large-format piece, a good addition to an Empire collection. Beautiful wooden and stucco frame gilded with gold leaf cleaned by our gilder and without any loss. Fresh engraving with some light brown traces.

Width: 124.5cm
Height: 94cm

Ref: K4TAG6MU6U