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SECOND EMPIRE. THE IMPERIAL HUNT. Large coloured panorama de…
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126
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SECOND EMPIRE. THE IMPERIAL HUNT. Large coloured panorama de…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
SECOND EMPIRE.
THE IMPERIAL HUNT. Large coloured panorama depicting the court and its retinue: horsemen, hounds, beaters, picturesque settings and the thrills of the hunt. Illustrated Publications for Children and Young People.
Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe), Haguenthal, (c. 1863).
Square 8vo, large leporello lithograph (17 x 200 cm) in the publisher’s illustrated and gilt cardboard case (very slight wear and minor soiling to the cardboard).
Description:
Large frieze lithographed in black and delicately watercoloured with highlights.
Consisting of a single lithograph printed on four joined sheets, each bearing a title at the bottom of the scene: *Le Rendez-vous*, *Le Goûter dans la forêt*, *L’Hallali* and *La Curée froide*.
Fontainebleau Castle in the background; the imperial family with Napoleon III and the Empress. The hunters are in the uniform of the Imperial Hunting Party.
“Extremely rare” (Thiebaud, 183). By De Vinck, 18719–18723.
Includes a handwritten letter on letterhead from *La Giberne*, a military review, dated 1921, Luplanté, la Bourdinière: a proposal to a client and a description of the work.
HUNTING. CHILDREN’S BOOK.
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