Pauline Bonaparte Historical Photogravure In Color 19th C Old Print

Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte
Color photogravure on China appliqué after a painting by Robert Lefèvre.
Printed in Paris, Published by Manzi, Joyant & Co
Circa 1897-1900
65.2 x 51.3 cm sheet
45.2 x 32 cm image
Pauline Bonaparte (20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825) was the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla in Italy, an imperial French princess and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France.Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802. Later, she married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba.