J. PARENT (fl. 1814-1833)

Napoleon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French, facing right in the uniform of the chasseurs-à-cheval de la Garde, dark green coat with red collar and piping, gold epaulettes, wearing the red sash, ribbon and breast-star of the Imperial French Order

细节

J. PARENT (fl. 1814-1833)
Napoleon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French, facing right in the uniform of the chasseurs-à-cheval de la Garde, dark green coat with red collar and piping, gold epaulettes, wearing the red sash, ribbon and breast-star of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the ribbon of the Order of the Iron Crown of Lombardy
signed with initials and dated 'J.P. 1815' (mid-right)
oval, 26 in. (53 mm.) high, ormolu frame with inner beaded border, pireced filigree frame with winged putti and surmounted by winged putti holding a crown

拍品专文

A slightly larger version is illustrated in Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight. Catalogue of foreign Paintings, Drawings, Miniatures [...], Liverpool, 1983, p. 241. no. LL3389. Another version, fully signed and also dated 1815, is illustrated in R. Walker, Miniatures. A selection of miniatures in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1997, pp. 70-71, no. 101. A slightly earlier version, signed with initials as the present miniature but dated 1814, is in the Gemäldegalerie (formerly at the Bodemuseum), Berlin, illustrated in I. Geismeier and B. Burock, Miniaturen, Berlin, 1986, p. 98, no. M 328.