Bovinet, Edme (1767 - 1832)

Lot 1543 limit € 60

Etching, coloured, "Entrée des Francais à Berlin, 27 Octobre 1806", after JF Swebach (1769-1823), inscribed below the depiction, signs of age (including browned, tears partially glued), sheet approx. 30.5 x 47 cm ; The historical event is shown when Napoleon's troops marched through the Brandenburg Gate. After the victory over Prussia, the Emperor of the French had the Quadriga dismantled on the Brandenburg Gate and re-erected on the Parisian triumphal arch. After Napoleon's defeat, she was returned to Berlin in 1814.