Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
218 FRANCE Foot grenadier of the Old Imperial Guard (Wearing full grand parade dress with white gaiters) Grenadier à pied de la Vieille Garde Impériale (Portant grande tenue de parade, en guêtres blanches) Empire period 1804–15 wool fabric, leather, brass, steel, fur, wood, feathers Musée de l’Empéri, Salon de Provence 889B – 895B, 5895B The Imperial Guard was the elite force of Napoleon’s troops and closest to him in command. The Old Guards, the most senior division, were distinguished on parade by a tall bearskin cap with a scarlet plume and matching epaulettes. Wherever they went en masse, the Imperial Guards created a potent symbol of the Emperor’s power and presence. As one contemporary observer noted after they marched triumphantly into Berlin, ‘the full power of the French national colours, thousand-fold echoes of red, blue and white, riveted the eye’. © 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.
FRANCE Uniform of a Colonel of the Light Cavalry, worn by Napoleon on Saint Helena Habit de colonel de Chasseurs à cheval porté par Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène Empire period 1804–15 wool fabric Musées de Sens, Sens Gift of Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, 1855 inv. 855.1.1 Denzil IBBETSON (after) Napoleon on board the Northumberland 19th century chromolithograph National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Bequest of Dame Mabel Brookes, 1976 After surrendering to the British following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Napoleon was first taken into British waters aboard the naval ship Bellerophon. On 7 August the former Emperor and his small retinue transferred to the Northumberland for the nine-week journey to his exile on the remote island of St Helena. This study, showing Napoleon leaning against a ship’s cannon, was made on the Northumberland by Denzil Ibbetson, who served on St Helena with the British Army from 1815 to 1823. 219 © 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.
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FRANCE<br />
Uniform <strong>of</strong> a Colonel <strong>of</strong> the Light Cavalry,<br />
worn by Napoleon on Saint Helena<br />
Habit de colonel de Chasseurs à cheval<br />
porté par Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène<br />
Empire period 1804–15<br />
wool fabric<br />
Musées de Sens, Sens<br />
Gift <strong>of</strong> Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, 1855 inv. 855.1.1<br />
Denzil IBBETSON (after)<br />
Napoleon on board the Northumberland<br />
19th century<br />
chromolithograph<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong>, Melbourne<br />
Bequest <strong>of</strong> Dame Mabel Brookes, 1976<br />
After surrendering to the British following<br />
his defeat at the Battle <strong>of</strong> Waterloo on<br />
18 June 1815, Napoleon was first taken<br />
into British waters aboard the naval ship<br />
Bellerophon. On 7 August the former<br />
Emperor and his small retinue transferred<br />
to the Northumberland for the nine-week<br />
journey to his exile on the remote island <strong>of</strong><br />
St Helena. This study, showing Napoleon<br />
leaning against a ship’s cannon, was made<br />
on the Northumberland by Denzil Ibbetson,<br />
who served on St Helena with the British<br />
Army from 1815 to 1823.<br />
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© 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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