Napoleon watercolour on ivory of the finest quality with great detail and vivid colours. Painted and signed by Albert Schumann a very fine miniaturist on ivory. This painting is a loose rendition of David's famous painting of the Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine that he finished in 1807. Original gilt bronze frame. Overall dimensions 8.75 inches by 5.75 inches ( 21.875 cms by 14.375 cms), painting alone 4.25 inches by 5.75 inches ( 10.625 cms by 14.25 cms). According to Benezit's Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs et Graveurs he was known to have been working around 1833.