: A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte with a Sketch of Josephine Empress of the French. by Tarbell Ida M Ida Minerva - Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1769-1821; Josephine Empress consort of Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1763-1814

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THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON:

SKETCH OF JOSEPHINE--EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH:

HANDWRITING OF NAPOLEON AT DIFFERENT PERIODS 453

TABLE OF THE BONAPARTE FAMILY 464

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 469

INDEX 477

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

The work was prosecuted with the one aim of omitting no important picture. When great paintings indispensable to a complete pictorial life of Napoleon were found, which had never been either etched or engraved, photographs were obtained, many of these photographs being made especially for our use.

The following letter explains fully the plan on which Mr. Hubbard's collection is arranged, and shows as well its admirable completeness. It gives, too, a classification of the pictures into periods, which will be useful to the reader.

S. S. MCCLURE, Esq.

There are few men whose characters at different periods of life are so distinctly marked as Napoleon's, as will appear by an examination of these prints. There are four of these periods: First Period, 1796-1797, Napoleon the General; Second Period, 1801-1804, Napoleon the Statesman and Lawgiver; Third Period, 1804-1812, Napoleon the Emperor; Fourth Period, the Decline and Fall of Napoleon, including Waterloo and St. Helena. Most of these prints are contemporaneous with the periods described. The portraits include copies of the portraits painted by the greatest painters and engraved by the best engravers of that age. There are four engravings of the paintings by Meissonier--"1807," "Napoleon," "Napoleon Reconnoitering," and "1814."

There must have been other portraits or busts of Bonaparte executed before 1796, besides the one by Greuze given in this collection. These may be found, but there are no others in my collection. Of the portraits of Napoleon belonging to this period eight were engraved before 1798, one in 1800. All have the long hair falling below the ears over the forehead and shoulders; while all portraits subsequent to Napoleon's expedition to Egypt have short hair. The length of the hair affords an indication of the date of the portrait.

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