. Basilio LASINIO, attributed to. "Atlas of the figures of all the Corps of the Army of the Kingdom of Italy in full dress, including the General Staff according to the order of His Excellency the Minister of War the War Pino to the Topographical Office of the War, year 1806". In folio (33 x 48 cm), 42 pages. Bound in green morocco (the colour of the kingdom of Italy), richly decorated in gold with foliage and Greek on the boards and spine. Pink silk lining. In antique but later cardboard. Important collection presenting : -A title page handwritten in Italian "Atlante dé Figurini di tutt'i Corpi dell'Armata del Regno d'Italia in grande tenuta, non escluso lo Stato-Maggiore Generale, eseguito per ordine di H.E. il Ministro della Guerra Pino nell'Ufficio Topografico della Guerra. Anno 1806". -An index page showing the forty plates of uniforms uniforms of the various corps of the Royal Italian Army contained in the collection. A set of 40 pen-and-ink plates, watercoloured and enhanced with gold and silver (slight wear), with captions in captions in Italian (here translated), totalling 107 figures and uniforms B.E. First Empire period (1806). Provenance : -Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy, son of the empress Empress Josephine, adopted son of Emperor Napoleon I, titled Duke of Leuchtenberg in 1817. -Descendants of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg. -Auction of 23 and 24 May 1935 in Zurich concerning the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais and the Dukes of Leuchtenberg from from Seeon Castle (Bavaria), no. 42. -From private collection. Historical background: Our album is the missing link in our knowledge of the creation army uniforms of the young Kingdom of Italy. Offered by the topographical service of the Minister of War of the of War of the Kingdom of Italy to Viceroy Eugène, this primary source offers a overview of the newly created army from July 1805, for traditional units such as the cavalry, infantry and artillery artillery, but also the technical and administrative corps. The composition and uniforms of this army would be radically the following year, with the regulations of July 1807, reinforcing the importance of our document. Some units, such as the Polish infantry and cavalry, heirs to the Polish legions in the service of the Cisalpine Republic, disappeared from Italian regulations the following year. The royal Italian army showed great courage on the side of the French particularly in Spain, Russia and Germany. It orderly return to its kingdom in 1814, containing the Austrian Austrian troops, before transferring to Austrian service after the fall of the fall of the French Empire. Our work to illustrate the uniforms of the Italian army was was produced by the Topographical War Office of the Kingdom of Italy of Italy and can be attributed to Captain Basilio Lasinio. Lasinio produced around 1804 a series of six watercolours of the uniforms of the Cisalpine signed and in the same style as our plates (now in the Brown collection). in the Brown collection) 201 Biographies : Eugène de BEAUHARNAIS (1781-1824) Born in 1781, he became aide-de-camp to Bonaparte, his new father-in-law, in father-in-law, in 1797. Present in Egypt and at Marengo, he followed a brilliant brilliant military career before being appointed viceroy of Italy. Adopted officially by Napoleon in 1806, he married the daughter of the King of Bavaria, Auguste-Amélie, a happy marriage that produced six children. Covered in glory during the Russian campaign, his loyalty to the the Emperor earned him the respect of all, worthy of the motto he had adopted honour and loyalty". After Waterloo, he took refuge in Munich where his father-in-law appointed him Duke of Leuchtenberg, and he devoted himself to his estates. He remained the confidant and sincere friend of his sister Hortense. Hortense, he visited her in her retreat at Arenenberg, but died prematurely He died prematurely in Munich, where he was buried in 1824. One of his daughters, Josephine de Leuchtenberg married Oscar Bernadotte, Royal Prince of Sweden of Sweden, who reigned from 1844 to 1859. She was thus at the origin of the sovereigns of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Luxembourg. Basilio LASINIO (1766-1832) Born in? Treviso in 1766 and trained artistically under his brother under his brother Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), a famous Florence engraver, Basilio Basilio frequented the Uffizi Gallery in the Medici capital. On 15 January 1788, at the age of 22, Basilio joined the Serenissima's army as a cadet. army as a cadet in the sixteenth Treviso regiment. He served the French from 1797. An engraver, topographer and officer, he worked as an artist for the topographical office of the Ministry of War of the Kingdom of Italy. For more on him, see Massimo Rossi, "L'archivista e bibliotecario del corpo topografico del deposito della guerra di Milano (1801-1810), available on the internet in Italian. Related works: - Some of our plates (around fifteen out of the 40 collected here) were taken over copies kept in the Anne S.K. Brown Military collection. Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, the library of the Risorgimento Museum and the Paul Marmottan library. The others have never been seen before, offering a major rediscovery of the uniforms of the young kingdom of Italy. We would like to thank Mr Yves Martin for his help and Mr Jean Pierre Perconte for his first-rate research on Italian troops and on our troops and the background to our album