Object details
Accession number
P17s6
Creators
Full title
Napoleon Bonaparte
Creation Date
about 1820
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1915.
Marks
Printed (underneath bust): "Bonaparte"
Printed (right side of bust): "Lith. de Delpech."
Inscribed in stone (lower center): "Bonaparte" [hand of François-Séraphin Delpech]
Printed (lower center): "28."
Display Media
Lithograph
Web Commentary
While attending finishing school in Paris during the 1850s, Isabella Stewart Gardner was captivated by French literature, culture, and history. Of particular note is her interest in the former French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. Isabella acquired this lithograph of Napoleon Bonaparte sometime before 1915, and displayed it with several other Napoleon-related souvenirs. The maker, François-Séraphin Delpech, was a renowned artist, lithographer, and art critic during the First French Empire and produced numerous lithographic portraits of leading figures of that time period.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 133.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 42 (19 Jun. 1966), p. 2.
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