Collection Graphics
Napoleon's career ladder
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- Title: Stufenleiter der Größe und des Sturzes Napoléons (Napoleon's career ladder)
- Origin: Deutschland
- Date: 1814
- Material/Technique: Colored etching
- Size: 23 x 36,8 cm
With the classical motif of the staircase of life, the steps of
Napoléon's development are shown from a Corsican boy to
his fall in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. This etching was made
before the Battle of Waterloo; thus it portrays Napoléon's
end as banishment to the Italian island of Elba.
