A large full red morocco portfolio, with gilded inscription ‘ANNULLATION CANONIQUE DU MARIAGE DE LE LEURS MAJESTES L'EMPEREUR ET ROI NAPOLEON ET L'IMPERATRICE REINE JOSEPHINE’
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
long-grained morocco in folio format, gilded ornaments on the edges of the boards and on the spine with alternating eagles and bees, closed with four ribbons, inside trimmed in blue.
Haut. 41 cm, larg. 31 cm ; Height 16 in, width 12 ¼ in
Osenat, Fontainebleau, 3 July 2005, lot 472
P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon, La Collection, Paris, 2019, p. 138-139
P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, 2005, p. 4
Napoleon Special Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Pudong, Shanghai, 27 October 2018 – 28 February 2019
Our portfolio forms a pair with a second, smaller portfolio held by the Archives nationales (AE II 1336), which was on display from June to December 1969 at the Grand Palais during the Napoleon exhibition (no. 475). This second portfolio was also presented, along with the writings, at the Joséphine exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 12 March - 29 June 2014.