A pair of Medici vases commemorating the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise and the birth of the King of Rome
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
circa 1812
each signed and dated on the plinth L. jeannest fecit. / 1812
the vase commemorating the birth of the King of Rome inscribed NATIVITAS / NEAPOLEONIS / FRANCISCI / CAROLL JOSEPH / REGIS ROMAE / ANNO DOMINI / MDCCCXI; the Mariage vase inscribed CONJUGIUM / NEAPOLINIS / MAGNI / ET / MARIAE LUDOVICAE / ANNO DOMINI / MDCCCX
bronze, dark brown patina
60cm. high, 23⅝in.; 44cm. diam, 17⅜in.
(2)
Collection Murat;
Sale Me Paul Pescheteau, Paris, 9 March 1964, lot 79;
Sale Rossini, Paris, 13 April 2005, lot 303
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des Artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Napoléon, le 1er novembre 1812, Paris, 1812, p.115 ;
M. A. Dupuy, I. le Masne de Chermont, E. Williamson, Vivant Denon, Directeur des musées sous le Consulat et l'Empire. Correspondances (1802-1815), musée du Louvre, Paris, 1999, t. II, p.831, [2 377].
Salon de 1812, no.1092 ;
Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, exh. cat., 2005, p.66