ID: 700000609 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000609	Record Type: Movable Work

Histoire de Napoléon (lithographs; Adam, Victor (1801-1866); published: Publié par Jeannin rue...; published 1833; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 723322; accession number: 2007.PR.52**;)

Note: Seven historiated scenes by Adam and two portraits by Maurin are illustrated in each plate.Painter and lithographer from Paris; The portfolio is dedicated to the life of Napoleon from his years of study at the military school of Brienne in France to his apotheosis following his obsequies; Gift of Stuart and Beverly Denenberg. Publication: A Paris : Publié par Jeannin rue du Croissant, no. 20, [1833].

Titles:

Histoire de Napoléon (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Portfolio of scenes and portraits illustrating the life of Napoleon (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: portfolio

Work Types:

lithographs [300041379] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, planographic prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 1833

Creator Display:

Adam, Victor (1801-1866); published: Publié par Jeannin rue du Croissant, no. 20 [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Adam, Victor (French painter and lithographer, 1801-1866) [500006886]

publishers Jeannin (French publisher, active 19th century) [500353814]

printmaker Maurin, Nicolas Eustache (French painter, lithographer, and illustrator, 1799-1850) [500016190]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 723322; accession number: 2007.PR.52**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 portfolio ([2] wrappers, 12 leaves of plates): lithography, b&w

	portfolios (groups of works) [300179434]
	.......(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, visual works groupings)

	wrappers (book covers) [300211392]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, covers (gathered matter components))

	plates (illustrations) [300189216]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, layout features, <images and ornament for layout features>, illustrations (layout features), <illustrations by form>)

	lithography [300053271]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, planographic printing processes)

Dimensions: wrappers unfolded ca. 59 x ca. 83 cm., sheets ca. 58 x ca. 41 cm, 12 leaves of plates

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

biographical

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (French emperor, 1769-1821) [500122388]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	biography (general genre) [300055908]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>) (AAT)

	portraits [300015637]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

Provenance: sdenenberg; Gift.

Inscriptions: Histoire de Napoléon suite de sujets / composés et dessinés par Victor Adam ; les portraits par N. Maurin. "London published by Ch. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street / Paris publié par Jeannin, rue du Croissant, No. 20 / New York published by Bailly Ward & Co."--printed in the lower margin of each plate.; "Publié par / H. Jeannin / à Paris"--oval blind stamp in the lower margin of each plate.; Flyer pasted onto page [2] of wrapper with list of titles of plates 1 to 6.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Histoire de Napoléon	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 723322
Portfolio of scenes and portraits illustrating the life of Napoleon	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Béraldi no. 11

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)