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DAVID Louis. Sale of the painting of the coronation...

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DAVID Louis. Sale of the painting of the coronation of Napoleon. Paris, Paul Chevallier commissaire-priseur and Georges Sortais, peintre-expert, 1898; 2 bifolios held together by a silk ribbon. Very rare prospectus announcing the sale of Davis's painting, offered at Georges Petit's gallery, rue de Sèze, Paris, on May 31, 1898. This painting, a duplicate of the original, is now conserved at the Château de Versailles. This painting, begun in 1808, was completed in Brussels, where David had taken refuge, in 1822 - A very rare document, in the form of 2 double-folded folios (4 pp.), one printed, the other with a reproduction of the painting.