Napoléon I

1810

After a model by Antoine-Denis Chaudet , Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , Manufacturer

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Napoléon I

Artwork Date 1810

Makers After a model by Antoine-Denis Chaudet (Artist) French, 1763-1810 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Hard-paste biscuit porcelain

Dimensions Overall: 20 1/2 × 10 × 9 1/16 inches (52.1 × 25.4 × 23 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard, Mrs. Jennifer C. Stoddard; gifts from Lauretta R. Boell, Miss Alma l'Hommedieu, Mrs. Orren Scotten, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, City of Detroit by exchange

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1997.8

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Inscriptions Incised, in block letters on front of base: NAPOLÉON Incised, on top of back of base: A.L. [for the repairer Augustin Liancé] Incised, in script on lower half of back of base: A.B. 6.dec.10 [Alexandre Brachart (sculptor/repairer at Sèvres), Dec. 6, 1810]

Marks Marks, impressed on front of base, above NAPOLEON: SÈVRES

Provenance

Napoléon Bonaparte.
1814, gift to Joseph Philippe Arrighi de Casanova, Vicaire Général à l'Ile d'Elbe;
by 1826, Frederick William Hervey, 5th Earl of Bristol (Bristol, England);
1st Marquess of Bristol (Bristol, England);
1986, gift to General Sir Henry Constantine, K.C.B.;
by descent to Vincent Constantine, Cross Hall Manor, St. Neots (Huntingdonshire, England);
(Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, France);
1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Eriksen, S. La Porcellane Francesi a Palazzo Pitti. Florence, 1973, pp. 100-101, no. 57.

Loesch, A. Napoleonische Schenkung 1809. Exh. cat., Porzellansammlung im Zwinger. Dresden, 1992-1993, no. 1.

Chevalier, Bernard. Napoleon. Exh. cat. Cook Convention Center. Memphis, 1993, p. 99, no. 100.

Préaud, T. The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847. Exh. cat. Bard Graduate Center. New York, 1997, no. 137, pp. 345-346 (ill.).

Darr, A. and T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 410, no. XV (ill.).

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, Napoléon I, 1810, hard-paste biscuit porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard, et al., 1997.8.