[PALLOY (Pierre-François). Description of... - Lot 13 - Osenat

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[PALLOY (Pierre-François). Description of... - Lot 13 - Osenat
[PALLOY (Pierre-François). Description of an allegorical medal for peace, dedicated by a Frenchman to his country, in the person of his Prince, and presented to him at the return of his conquests and the arrival of the brave in 1807. [Paris, at the author, November 1807]. Printed folio, pasted on strong laid paper with blue silk ganse, the whole in orange cardboard slipcase decorated with a simple fillet and gilded pampers garland on the boards with title " Medal for peace. 1807" pushed in gilt letters to the center of the upper board; folds of the board with some small text missing and with restorations to the reverse, slipcase a little insolate (period slipcase). SPECTACULAR AND RARE SILK PRINTING of a placard explaining the allegory of a commemorative medal in honor of Napoleon I, after the signing of the treaties of Tilsit (July 7 and 9, 1807) which put an end to hostilities with Prussia and Russia. SECOND ISSUE IN PART ORIGINAL, MADE TO CELEBRATE THE RETURN OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD to Paris on November 25, 1807 - with title modified to evoke this event. In the Polish campaign against the Russians, the Guard had notably done wonders at the battle of Eylau. The first edition of this placard had been put in press for the emperor's birthday on August 15, 1807. Very beautiful copperplate representing both sides of the medal, engraved on a subject by Pierre-François Palloy by Jean Le Roy, known as the illustrator of an edition of La Jérusalem délivrée by Tasse (1771) and Le Paysan perverti by Rétif de La Bretonne (1776). With a large woodcut decoration: framing frieze and central column decorated with plant garlands. Pierre-François Palloy, the contractor in charge of the demolition of the Bastille, made scale models of the building with materials collected on the spot, as well as commemorative medals, which he then sold and offered to various French civil and military institutions. A "patriot", he paid allegiance to all regimes until the July Monarchy, as here to "The Incomparable Napoleon I, Emperor of the French and King of Italy, on his Throne of Glory". Collection De Vinck, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, t. IV, 1969, n° 8348.
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