Fac-simile des Monumens Coloriés de l'Egypte, Jean Alexandre Alois, 1825, Graphic Art, Lithograph, More than 160 leading French artists and scientists were linked to the young Napoleon Bonaparte’s (1769-1821) Egyptian campaign in 1798-99. This lithograph is a page from the splendid work entitled, Description de l’Egypte, . This resulted from the scientific work carried out by the French in the Institut d’Egypte in Cairo. Thorvaldsen owned the expanded second edition, the one known as the Panckoucke Edition, commissioned in 1820 by Napoleon’s successor

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