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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Antoine-Denis CHAUDET designer<br />
French 1763–1810<br />
Pierre-Philippe THOMIRE<br />
French 1751–1843<br />
French Imperial Eagle <strong>of</strong> the<br />
6th Regiment <strong>of</strong> the Light Cavalry.<br />
Hundred Days model<br />
Aigle de drapeau du 6e régiment des<br />
Chasseurs à cheval. Modèle des Cent Jours<br />
1815<br />
gilt bronze<br />
Fondation Napoléon, Paris<br />
Donation Lapeyre inv.895<br />
The Hundred Days model <strong>of</strong> the Imperial<br />
Eagle was created to replace the numerous<br />
eagles that had been destroyed after<br />
Napoleon’s defeat during the first Restoration<br />
<strong>of</strong> the monarchy in 1814. Only ninety gilt<br />
bronze eagles <strong>of</strong> the 1804 model are known<br />
to survive today, the rest having been melted<br />
down during the first Restoration. The 1815<br />
Hundred Days version is rarer still. Made with<br />
less precision and in great haste, the 1815<br />
eagles have a chunkier appearance, shorter<br />
wings and a beak that is almost closed.<br />
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