Napoléon BONAPARTE (1769–1821) SIGNED DOCUMENT - Lot 89

Napoléon BONAPARTE (1769–1821) SIGNED DOCUMENT Document signed by Bonaparte, First Consul of the Republic. French Republic. Department of War. 32nd Demi-Brigade of the Line. Commission appointing Citizen Labat (Antoine) to the rank of Lieutenant, with details of his service record, campaigns, actions, and wounds. 27 Prairial, Year XI (i.e. June 16, 1803). Vellum document, partly printed, signed in Saint-Cloud by First Consul Bonaparte (at the bottom, center) and countersigned by the Minister of War Alexandre Berthier (left) and the Secretary of State Hugues Maret (right). Approx. 13.0" × 9.1". Copper-engraved vignette at the top depicting an allegory of the Republic. Document framed together with a portrait of Napoleon: Napoleon in 1813 (1896). Engraving by T. Johnson after the painting by Amable-Louis-Claude Pagnest. Engraving taken from *Life of Napoleon Bonaparte*, Volume IV, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., New York, 1896]. Visible document dimensions: 13.0" × 9.1" Overall framed dimensions: 19.5" × 21.5"