"Le Printemps ou le retour de la Violette"

The print is part of a group of engravings (invv. 2714-2767) of the same origin received by the Museum on a permanent basis. The anti-Bourbon table refers to the return of Napoleon from the island of Elba, interpreted in a zoomorphic key: the crowned imperal eagle, preceded by bees, holds in its beak the Legion of honor and in its paws the violets, while turkeys and geese (the Bourbon court) are driven back across the sea.