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 />
Baron François GÉRARD (after)<br />
Portrait <strong>of</strong> Empress Josephine<br />
Portrait de l’impératrice Joséphine<br />
1806–09<br />
wool and silk (haute lisse)<br />
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison & Bois-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison<br />
Gift <strong>of</strong> Princess Louis de Croÿ, 1931 Inv. M.M. 40.47.8024<br />
A large portrait painted by François Gérard<br />
<strong>of</strong> Madame Bonaparte, the future Empress<br />
Josephine, was featured at the Paris Salon<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1801. With Napoleon now ruling as<br />
France’s First Consul, Josephine was in<br />
1801 very much in the public eye as wife<br />
<strong>of</strong> the new head <strong>of</strong> government. Hung in<br />
the Council Room at Malmaison during<br />
the Empire, Gérard’s painting is conserved<br />
today in the Hermitage Museum in<br />
St Petersburg. In 1806, Napoleon ordered<br />
this tapestry to be woven after Gérard’s<br />
portrait. Eight Gobelins weavers worked<br />
to create this masterpiece.<br />
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