Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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MANUFACTURE DES GOBELINS, Paris<br />
manufacturer<br />
France est. 1662<br />
Gioacchino SERANGELI (after)<br />
Napoleon receiving the deputies <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Army in the Louvre after his coronation,<br />
8 December 1804<br />
Napoléon reçoit au Louvre les députés<br />
de l’armée après son couronnement le<br />
8/12/1804<br />
1809–15<br />
wool, silk, (haute lisse)<br />
Mobilier national, Paris inv. GMTT 250<br />
In 1806 Napoleon commissioned the<br />
Gobelins tapestry workshops to create<br />
four large tapestries for Versailles.<br />
These were to illustrate contemporary events,<br />
significant moments from his own reign.<br />
Vivant Denon asked the Italian painter<br />
Gioacchino Serangeli to combine three <strong>of</strong><br />
Napoleon’s preferred subjects into a single<br />
painting: the Emperor in dialogue with<br />
his generals, portraits <strong>of</strong> ancient Roman<br />
emperors, and the masterworks <strong>of</strong> antiquity<br />
that had been assembled from across<br />
Europe into the new Musée Napoléon.<br />
Weaving after Serangeli’s painting began<br />
at Gobelins in November 1809.<br />
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