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Exhibition Review
Napoleon: Power and Splendour. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 676-678
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Reviewer:
Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis / Gros, Antoine-Jean / Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Gerard, Francois Baron (1770-1837) / Rigaud, Hyacinthe / Isabey, Jean-Baptiste / Chinard, Joseph / Dufau, Fortuné / Regnault, Jean Baptiste
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Prints / Sculpture / Porcelain / Tapestries / Textiles / Silks / Costume / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (MO), United States / Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
patrons:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
places:
United States / Richmond (United States) / Kansas City / Canada / Montreal / France / Fontainebleau
subjects:
French painting / French sculpture / Decorative arts / Politics / Diplomacy / First Empire (France: 1799-1815) / Patronage / Ancien Régime (France) / Ceremonies / Allegories / Iconography / Portraits / Family portraits / Sèvres porcelain / Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. General Armand-Samuel de Marescot with his wife, Cécile, his son, Antoine-Samuel, his daughter, Joséphine-Cécile, and his motherin-law, Marie-Charlotte d’Artis de Thiézac, by Fortuné Dufau. 1806. Canvas, 240 by 195 cm. (Private collection; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
16. Triumphal march of Napoleon to the Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault. 1804–05. Paper mounted on canvas, 52.4 by 93 cm. (Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
17. Etruscan Scroll Vase, called the Londonderry Vase. Sèvres Imperial Manufactory, after a design by Charles Percier and Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart père, decoration by Gilbert Drouet and Christophe-Ferdinand Caron. 1813. Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, gilding and ormolu mounts, height 137.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Book Review
The Allure of Empire. Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836
06/1999 | 1155 | 141
Pages: 362-363
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Reviewer:
McWilliam, Neil (McWilliam, Neil)
Subjects
dates:
1790-1799 / 1800-1839
places:
France
subjects:
Politics / Cultural history / Historical context / Nationalism / Propaganda / French
subjects:
First Empire (France: 1799-1815) / Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
subjects:
Art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Allure of Empire. Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 | author: Porterfield, Todd