Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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FRANCE<br />
The King <strong>of</strong> Rome asleep<br />
Le Roi de Rome endormi<br />
Empire period 1804–15<br />
marble<br />
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison & Bois-Préau,<br />
Rueil-Malmaison inv. MM. 40.47.8072<br />
NITOT ET FILS, Paris manufacturer<br />
France 1780–1814<br />
Replica <strong>of</strong> the ruby and diamond parure<br />
<strong>of</strong> Empress Marie-Louise<br />
Réplique de la Parure<br />
de l’Impératrice Marie-Louise<br />
1809–11<br />
gold, silver, white sapphires, diamonds, garnets<br />
Chaumet Collection, Paris<br />
This is a period replica <strong>of</strong> the ruby and<br />
diamond parure delivered to Empress<br />
Marie-Louise on January 16, 1811.<br />
It comprises all the ornaments except the<br />
belt (as shown on the original drawing <strong>of</strong><br />
the parure, kept in the Chaumet archives,<br />
Paris). It was executed in Nitot’s workshop<br />
in homage and memory to this prestigious<br />
imperial order. As the original jewels were<br />
dispersed at the auction <strong>of</strong> the French<br />
Crown Jewels in 1887, this second parure<br />
is <strong>of</strong> a great historical importance.<br />
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