Maile Napoleon I {1875} NGV [PR]

Maile, George (active first half 19^thcentury; British)
Napoleon I
Engraving
Presented by the executors of the late Dr Augustus Greeves, 1875
National Gallery of Victoria (p.182.3-1)

This print was donated together with Unknown, after Dawe Duke of Wellington 1842 {1875} NGV [PR].

See also * Unknown artist Portrait of Napoleon I {1875} Loc? [DR]: possibly the same work, although there are two separate entries in the NGV’s pre-1905 acquisitions list (under 1875).

Bénézit notes that Maile exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1824 to 1841.

Refs.

AR 1875, p.39 (artist’s name not given). Not listed in NGV 1894 or 1905 

The NGV catalogue includes the details and reproduction shown here. For Maile, see e.g. Bénézit 9, p.52 (no biographical dates provided)