In pictures

French medal (by Andrieu and Denon) commemorating the peace treaties signed at Tilsit on 7 and 9 July 1807 by France, Russia and Prussia.On the obverse stand profiles of the three sovereigns (Napoleon I, Alexander I and Frederick William III).

This post card is a reproduction of the painting by Meissonier held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The artist had designed a Napoleonic series of which only the famous 1814 was completed, now on show at the Musée d'Orsay.  

This period postcard is a reproduction of Vernet's famous painting of the battle commisioned in 1835 by Louis-Philippe for the Gallery of Battles at the Versailles château.

Ignaz Pleyel was a composer and music publisher, and in 1807 he was to found his famous eponymous piano manufactory, which was to achieve fame under the directorship of Ignaz's son, Camille, close friend of Chopin's.

The composer Ignaz Pleyel began music publishing in 1802 in a shop in the Chaussée d'Antin quarter of Paris. His publications soon became famous and he counted amongst his clients greats such as Boccherini, Beethoven, Clementi and Cramer.

This French-built fortepiano was made by the Pleyel manufactory. It belonged to Chopin, friend of Camille Pleyel, son of the founder of the manufactory, Ignaz Pleyel.

Marie Moke (Paris 1811 – St Josse-ten-Noode (near Bruxelles) 1875). Married Camille Pleyel in 1830.

Edouard Moyse (1827-1908) was a Jewish painter from Nancy who specialised painting in scenes of Jewish life. This work here was first presented at the Salon of 1868. It shows the Great Sanhedrin called by Napoleon in February-March 1807 and presided over by the Rabbi, David Sintzheim.

This drawing is one of series of preliminary studies for bas-reliefs destined for the Palais du Corps Législatif. It recounts an episode from the Prussian campaign taken from the 18th Bulletin de la Grande Armée written in Potsdam and dated 26 October, 1806: “The emperor went to see the tomb of Frederick the Great. The […]