A mahogany fragment of the outer board of the coffin of Emperor Napoleon I, circa 1821
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
bearing a handwritten label: ‘Planche en acajou provenant du cercueil de l’Empereur Napoléon donné par le Gal Bertrand à son frère. F.B’.
Long. 40 cm, larg 18 cm ; Length 15 2/3 in, width 7 in
Collection of Henri-Gatien Bertrand (1773-1844), French general and head of the Emperor's household during his exile on the island of Saint Helena;
By descent, Million et Robert, Bertrand collection, 4 December 1991, lot 31 (purchase 2500 FR);
Purchased from the expert Monsieur Duchiron in 1997.
Le sacre de Napoléon, 2022, exhibition catalogue, Chapelle des Jésuites de Saint-Omer, 18 June - 25 September 2022, p. 26
P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon, La collection, Paris, 2019, ill. p. 201
P.-J. Chalençon, B. Topping and R. Hull Etling, Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, Floride, 2005, exhibition catalogue, 2005-2011, ill. p. 105
Napoleão, Brésil, 2003, exhibition catalogue, Museu de Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo, 24 August - 2 November 2003, p. 306, fig. 197
Treasures of the Emperor and Imperial France : The Pierre-Jean Chalençon Collection, exhibition catalogue, Villa Alba, Melbourne, 1999, ill. p. 29, fig. 271
Treasures of the Emperor and Imperial France : The Pierre-Jean Chalençon Collection, Villa Alba Museum in Melbourne, 1999
Napoleão, Museu de Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo, 24 august - 2 november 2003
Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, A Travelling Exhibition from Russell Etling Company, 2005-2011
Le sacre de Napoléon, Chapelle des Jésuites de Saint-Omer, 18 June - 25 September 2022