Henri DUPRAY, after.
"Lecture du jugement de la commission militaire au Duc d'Enghien" (Reading of the military commission's judgment to the Duke of Enghien).
Etching by L.Muller. With its engraving plate in engraved iron.
10x12cm.
Framed under glass.
Gilt frame.
B.E.
History:
This etching was used for Léon Hennique's "La Mort du Duc d'Enghien en trois tableaux".
It corresponds to the third and final tableau, the reading of the judgment by General Hulin and the Vincennes military commission.
Biography :
Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien
French prince (1772-1804).
Son of Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon, 9th Prince de Condé, he fought in his father's armies until 1801, before settling, after the signing of the Treaty of Lunéville, in Ettenheim, Baden, opposite Strasbourg. It was here, on neutral territory, that he was abducted on the night of March 15 to 16, 1804. Tried by a military commission, he was sentenced to death and executed on March 21.
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