Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria

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198 JOSEPH DUFOUR & CIE, Paris manufacturer France 1808–23 Drapery Draperie 1815–20 coloured woodblock Les Arts Décoratifs musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris inv. 25579 JOSEPH DUFOUR & CIE, Paris manufacturer France 1808–23 Drapery Draperie 1815–20 coloured woodblock Les Arts Décoratifs, musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris inv. 29578 © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.

Antonio CANOVA Italian 1757–1822 Napoleon I after 1810 plaster Fondazione Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma inv. 2531 Napoleon revered the work of the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, and in 1803 modelled for a clay bust of himself as the young and fit First Consul of France. This was a heroic and noble portrait, imaging the sitter as a new Augustus, which pleased Napoleon greatly. This head bust in turn was used as a model for a second work by Canova, a 3.4-metre-high marble statue of a nude Napoleon mythologised as Mars the Peacemaker. This plaster relates to both these compositions. 199 © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.

198<br />

JOSEPH DUFOUR & CIE, Paris<br />

manufacturer<br />

France 1808–23<br />

Drapery<br />

Draperie<br />

1815–20<br />

coloured woodblock<br />

Les Arts Décoratifs musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris inv. 25579<br />

JOSEPH DUFOUR & CIE, Paris<br />

manufacturer<br />

France 1808–23<br />

Drapery<br />

Draperie<br />

1815–20<br />

coloured woodblock<br />

Les Arts Décoratifs,<br />

musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris inv. 29578<br />

© COPYRIGHT<br />

This document remains the property <strong>of</strong> the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.

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