Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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118<br />
Jacques-Louis DAVID<br />
French 1748–1825<br />
Napoleon, crowned<br />
Napoléon, tête couronnée<br />
1807<br />
oil on wood<br />
Fondation Dosne-Thiers (Institut de France), Paris<br />
Bequest <strong>of</strong> Frédéric Masson, 1923<br />
Bernard Augustin-Françoise-André<br />
PICOT embroiderer<br />
France active 1804–15<br />
Imperial Bee from the Grand Mantle worn<br />
by Napoleon at his coronation in 1804<br />
Abeille Impériale du Grand Manteau porté<br />
par Napoléon lors de son couronnement<br />
en 1804<br />
1804<br />
gilt wire<br />
French Empire Collection, Sydney<br />
Following the Coronation, the Emperor’s<br />
Imperial robes were stored in the treasury <strong>of</strong><br />
Notre Dame Cathedral. With the restoration<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, they<br />
were given by Louis XVIII to the canons<br />
<strong>of</strong> Notre Dame, who dismantled them and<br />
sold the materials. The numerous gold bees<br />
such as this one that adorned Napoleon’s<br />
mantle, crafted by Picot, embroiderer to the<br />
Emperor, were cut <strong>of</strong>f and sold by weight.<br />
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