Adrien-Louis-Marie Cavelier (1787-1867)
A project for a dressing table with a stool for Empress Marie-Louise, on the occasion of her marriage to Emperor Napoleon I in the chapel of the Louvre, after Pierre Paul Prud'hon, circa 1810
Estimate
60,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
pen, brown ink, coloured wash and gouache, over pencil, on several sheets mounted on canvas; gilded wooden frame (later)
210 x 183 cm ; 82 2/3 x 72 in
Maison Odiot, Paris ;
Thomyre Collection ;
Collection M. Marcille ;
Sale M. Marcille, 4 March 1857, n°165 ;
Sotheby's London, Old master and british drawings, 8 July 2015, lot 206.
J.-P. Samoyault, Mobilier Français : Consulat et Empire, Paris, 2009, ill. p. 229
J.-M Pinçon & O. Gaube du Gers, Odiot, l'Orfèvre, Paris, 1990, ill. p. 105
J. Guiffrey, L'Œuvre de Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, p. 368, n°984
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.-P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, p. 212
Exposition Prud'hon, May 1874, n°399
Exposition des dessins de décoration de maîtres anciens, 1880, n°326
Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, May-June 1922, n°201
The Eagle Flying Across Europe: Napoleon Relics Exhibition, Fondation Napoléon / Hubei Provincial Museum / Nanjing Museum / Liaoning Museum / Tianjin Museum, 29 August 2014 - 31 March 2015
Dessiner l'or et l'argent, Odiot orfèvre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 8 March - 7 May 2017
This monumental drawing from the Odiot Collection is one of the last surviving testimonies of the magnificent gift presented by the City of Paris to Marie-Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine on the occasion of her marriage to Emperor Napoleon I in 1810. In this design, Marie-Louise is depicted as Flora, accompanied by putti personifying the arts and sciences. The table’s feet are represented as cornucopias linked by a mascaron topped with a perfume vase. The silver-gilt and lapis toilette table was crafted by the silversmith Odiot and bronzier Thomire, then presented to the City of Paris on August 15, 1810. It is melted down in 1832 on Marie-Louise’s orders to aid cholera victims.
Related Works:
Collection of Count Charles-André Colonna Walewski: Adrien-Louis-Marie Cavelier, Psyche of Empress Marie-Louise, pen, watercolor, wash, circa 1810, 305 x 173.5 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Design for a table, formerly Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960.
Paris Drouot Sale: The Grand Mirror for Empress Marie-Louise’s Bedroom at Fontainebleau, January 25, 2013, no. 32.