89 BES Antoine, DUBREUIL Gabriel, On retrouve le corps du Prince Poniatowski.
Paris after 1851, drawing and engraving. Antoine Bès and Gabriel Dubreuil, 28 x 19 cm; (card: 33.5 x 25.5 cm).
A unique allegorical scene featuring Rev. Joseph Poniatowski. Engraving colored in the period based on a black and white lithograph by Antoine Bès (b. 1807) and Gabriel Dubreuil (b. 1818). Polish soldiers find and pull the body of Prince Jozef Poniatowski from the currents of the Elster River. Under the engraving is a three-line description of the circumstances of finding the prince's body. No pieces are available on the Polish antiquarian market. Rare!
Piece db preserved after professional conservation in the paper workshop, slightly darkened; on the back stamps being the ex-libris of the owner of the collection Y. Hutin.
