Le jeu des quatre coins, ou, les cinq freres

Napoleon (center), his three brothers, Joseph, Louis and Jérôme, and their brother-in-law Joachim Murat play a children's game called "four corners" over the map of Europe. From his position in the center of the map --the countries France and Austria--Napoleon directs his brothers to exchange places. As the catalog "Napoleon Im Spiegel der Karikatur" suggests, this image refers to the continual re-organization of Europe under the rule of the Bonapartes, especially after 1806. The John Hay library owns two impressions of this plate. While the state appears to be the same, the two vary in coloring. N.b. nap236 is colored consistently with the version reproduced as no. 159 in "Napoleon im Spiegel." The dimensions given are for nap325. Nap326 measures 30 cm x 37 cm. Napoleon (center), his three brothers, Joseph, Louis and Jérôme, and their brother-in-law Joachim Murat play a children's game called "four corners" over the map of Europe. From his position in the center of the map --the countries France and Austria--Napoleon directs his brothers to exchange places. As the catalog "Napoleon Im Spiegel der Karikatur" suggests, this image refers to the continual re-organization of Europe under the rule of the Bonapartes, especially after 1806. The John Hay library owns two impressions of this plate. While the state appears to be the same, the two vary in coloring. N.b. nap236 is colored consistently with the version reproduced as no. 159 in "Napoleon im Spiegel." The dimensions given are for nap325. Nap326 measures 30 cm x 37 cm.