Three Weeks After Marriage, or the Great Little Emperor Playing at Bo-Peep

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg|Empress Marie Louise of France|Napoléon Bonaparte

May 15, 1810 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Marie Louise, at right, holds the imperial crown and sceptre, and threatens Napoleon who crouches behind a chair. She raises the crown overhead, as if to hurl it at Napoleon. She exclaims, "By the Head of Jove, I hate him worse than Famine or Diseases Perish his Family, let inveterate Hate Commence between our Houses from this Moment, And meeting never let them bloodless part."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg|Empress Marie Louise of France|Napoléon Bonaparte

Date

May 15, 1810

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959