2-750-844 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Medallion portraits of Napoleon, 1797-1799, (1921). 'Médaillons de Bonaparte'. Top: drawing in crayon by André Dutertre, written on the reverse: 'J'ai dessiné, moi Dutertre, d'aprés nature, le général en chef sur le vaissau 'l'Orient', dans la traversée de l'expédition d'Egypte, en 7 de la République'. (Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) drawn from life on board 'L'Orient' during the Egyptian Campaign in 1799; left: plaster mould of a medal by Louis-Simon Boizot; right: another version by Boizot; bottom: Bonaparte as First Consul, 1799, also by Boizot. (Made in Sèvres, France). From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot. [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]