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“Napoléon Wearing the Coronation Regalia of the King of Italy”

“Napoléon Wearing the Coronation Regalia of the King of Italy”

Jean-Baptiste IsabeyProvenance - December 1852

Six months after the coronation in Paris, the Emperor was crowned “King of Italy” in Milan. Isabey executed this drawing in December 1852, at the time of Napoléon III’s coup d’etat. Napoléon III was the son of Joséphine’s daughter, Queen Hortense of Holland, and of Napoléon’s brother, Louis, the King of Holland. This birth of the “Second Empire” in France provided inspiration for the artist’s sentimental souvenir (remembrance) of the First Empire.

Historical Provenance - Prince Napoléon Murat collection

Graphite on paper



✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise picture

✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise

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✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise picture

✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise

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"LA MARSEILLAISE à SAÃGON" original poster surrounded Litho 1950 BRENET 82x64cm

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✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise picture

✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise

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"LA MARSEILLAISE" original poster entoilée Jacques CARLU 1918 (ROUGET DE L'ISLE) 

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✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise picture

✒ RARE LETTER Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE author of La Marseillaise

$1278.96



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