Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(FRANCE.) Group of 3 maps of the Seven Years War from the personal collection of Marshal Berthier. Various sizes; condition strong. Vp, 1761 and undated
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These three maps come from the personal collection of Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815), Napoleon's longtime chief of staff. They may have been inherited from Bertier's father, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Baptiste Berthier (1721-1804), who was a military topographical engineer.
Includes: L'Huillier de la Serre. Armée de Soubise 1761: Camp de Rheine. Watercolor plan showing buildings and roads in and around the city of Rheine in Westphalia, Germany, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. 21 September 1761 Pair of 18th-century maps of Germany, both partially overlaid with oil paper, each 19 x 28 1/2 inches, uncaptioned and undated. One docketed on verso "Théatre de la Guerre en Westphalie et dans la Hesse" with military positions in color on overlay; and the other with a manuscript tag on verso reading "Basse silene Armée Russe en Corps Prussien."
Provenance: Sotheby's "Napoleon & Berthier" sale of the property of the descendants of Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1 March 1938, parts of lots 54 and 54A.