Napoleon - An Intimate Portrait


Gold medal awarded to Firmin Didot by First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte

Gold medal awarded to Firmin Didot by First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte

- 1800

Napoléon awarded this medal to the publisher Firmin Didot during the first industrial exhibition he sponsored to encourage French manufacturing, held at the Louvre in 1801. The medal represents a character with Phrygian cap (France) surrounded with different symbols: a plow for agriculture; a paddle for navigation; a compass for industry; and a caduceus for trade. It is engraved with the words “Encouragement and reward to the industry.”

Historical Provenance - Firmin Didot family collection

22-carat gold



PIERRE AUGEREAU Marshal of France lithograph by Ludwig Portman, 1807 picture

PIERRE AUGEREAU Marshal of France lithograph by Ludwig Portman, 1807

$100.00



19th CDV photo Pierre AUGEREAU, Marshal-Duke of CASTIGLIONE (1757-1816). picture

19th CDV photo Pierre AUGEREAU, Marshal-Duke of CASTIGLIONE (1757-1816).

$32.15



19th CDV photo Marshal Pierre AUGEREAU, Duke of CASTIGLIONE (1757-1816). picture

19th CDV photo Marshal Pierre AUGEREAU, Duke of CASTIGLIONE (1757-1816).

$32.15



1897 Napoleon Marshal Charles Pierre Francois Augereau Duke Of Castiglione PRINT picture

1897 Napoleon Marshal Charles Pierre Francois Augereau Duke Of Castiglione PRINT

$10.00



26 - Pin's HISTORY 1st Empire - MARECHAL Pierre-François-Charles AUGEREAU picture

26 - Pin's HISTORY 1st Empire - MARECHAL Pierre-François-Charles AUGEREAU

$4.34



cpa LITHO PRINT portrait of Pierre AUGEREAU Marshal of FRANCE Le Fier Brigand picture

cpa LITHO PRINT portrait of Pierre AUGEREAU Marshal of FRANCE Le Fier Brigand

$9.54



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