HADOL — “BONAPARTE’S NEW YEAR’S GIFT” - Lot 126

HADOL — “BONAPARTE’S NEW YEAR’S GIFT” HADOL (Paul). Bonaparte’s New Year’s Gift. Paris, Lith. Lemercier & Fils, 61 rue de Cléry, [1870–1871]. A colored satirical lithograph depicting the deposed Napoleon III, nearly naked and in chains, standing in front of a building bearing the inscription “Bagne” (penal colony). At his side, a female personification of France presents him with a convict’s uniform, the cap of which bears the number 2031. A scathing anti-Bonapartist caricature published after the defeat at Sedan and the fall of the Second Empire. Paper slightly browned, with minor marks and marginal creases.

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