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Rites of the World
Restoration of Religion, Concordat Proclaimed, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
Anno Domini MDCCCXXVII1827
€220
$245 · £185
Original print, not a reproduction
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- Date
- 1827
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Corners intact. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges, more toward the bottom right. Scattered foxing in the margins, heavier along the top edge and in the lower left, and a small brown mark below the caption. Faint pencil marks in the top corners. Printed image clean.
- Faith
- Christianity
- Collection
- Rites of the World
- Era
- 1800 to 1849, Travellers and the costume books
- Stock no.
- BG-14174-3-63
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
An original antique lithograph from Madou's Vie de Napoléon, published at Brussels in 1827, lettered "RÉTABL.T DE LA RELIGION" in open capitals above the image. The scene is the interior of a great Gothic cathedral, seen past a round column with a carved capital at the left toward the choir and apse, with lancet windows above and a crucifix at the right. At the center a priest holding a monstrance walks before a canopy crowned with plumes, with bishops in miters around him. Grenadiers in bearskin caps form a lane through a dense crowd of officials, soldiers and onlookers.
The caption below the image reads: "Les Consuls, accompagnés des premiers corps de l'état se rendirent à la métropole où le Cardinal légat officia et où le concordat fut promulgué avec un grand appareil." In English: The Consuls, accompanied by the chief bodies of the state, went to the metropolitan church, where the Cardinal Legate officiated and where the Concordat was proclaimed with great ceremony.
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, the press of Marcellin Jobard. Its title page describes a text written by a society of men of letters from new documents dictated and corrected by Napoleon at Saint Helena, with plates lithographed by the Belgian artist Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877) after the first painters of the French school. This plate comes from the first volume, which runs from Brienne to the camp of Boulogne.
The Concordat and its Organic Articles became law in April 1802. On Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, the three Consuls, with the ministers, the Senate, the Tribunate and the Legislative Body, attended a solemn Mass and Te Deum at Notre-Dame de Paris, the metropolitan church of the capital. The papal legate, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara, officiated, and public Catholic worship was formally restored after the upheavals of the Revolution.
Condition: Corners intact. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges, more toward the bottom right. Scattered foxing in the margins, heavier along the top edge and in the lower left, and a small brown mark below the caption. Faint pencil marks in the top corners. Printed image clean.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
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