"Drawing Enhanced Portrait Of Napoleon 1st Signed Bordes"
Portrait of Napoleon 1st, drawing in lead pencil enhanced with gouache. Signed below in the margin along the drawing, Bordes fecit aux cent jours. Charles-Joseph Bordes (Toulouse 1779- after 1845) miniature painter and lithographer, pupil of Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Ring frame and easel, with oval view, in gilded bronze of very good quality, decorated at the 4 corners with a large palm and leafy scrolls on an amati background. The tour with the same decor to which pine cones are added. Very good condition, a thin strip of wetting at the bottom. Frame dimension: 14.5 x 13.5 cm Drawing dimension: 10 x 8 cm 
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