IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13546 accession number: M.1-1866 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast, and chased. Of herm form, showing the sitter full face. On the front in intaglio: 'NAPOLÉON'. On the proper right side is inscribed: 'Denon, directeur/ Chaudet, fecit/ Gonon; Canleurs, ciseleur. 1808.' object type: Bust in herm form, titled NAPOLÉON, and inscribed 'Denon, directeur/ Chaudet, fecit/ Gonon; Canleurs, ciseleur. 1808.' on the proper right side title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: Baron Dominque Vivant Denon (1747-1825); sold Paris, 1826; L.J.J. Dubois, Description des objets d’arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon . . ., Paris (Hipppolyte Tilliard), 1826, pp. 155-6, no. 715; at the sale, or later, purchased by Horatio Walpole (1783-1858) 3rd Earl of Orford of the second creation; sold Christie & Manson, 26 June 1856, Catalogue of Fine Italian Sculpture, Bronzes, & Terra-cotta . . . removed from a Noble Mansion in the Country, p. 10, lot 143, sold for £25.14.6 to to John Edward Fordham Esq. (1799-1880/81) Melbourn Bury, Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, by whom given to the Fitzwilliam. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by J.E. Fordham STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13546 PEOPLE ------------------- Denon, Dominique Vivant Bonaparte, Napoléon SUBJECTS ------------------- Paris France 48.856667; 2.350987 male Paris France 48.856667; 2.350987 male TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, and chased casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1808 - 1808 creation date earliest: 1808 creation date latest: 1808 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: First Empire culture: Napoleon I CREATORS -------- maker: Chaudet, Antoine-Denis maker: Canleurs, Charles Stanislas maker: Gonon, Honoré DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26 dimension: Height units: cm value: 57 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation" title: Dominique-Vivant Denon, L'Oeil de Napoléon title: 1814 Celebrating Peace: Regency England and the First Summer of Love CITATIONS -------- Description des Objets d'Arts qui Composent Le Cabinet de Feu M. Le Baron V. Denon, Monuments Antiques, Historiques, Modernes; Ouvrages Orientaux... Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Dominique-Vivant Denon, L'Oeil de Napoléon Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Napoléon, portraits contemporains bustes et statues Malerei und Plastik des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts in Frankreich Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum A Collection of Napoleonic Memorabilia 19th Century Sculpture, Furniture and Works of Art, 25th October 1988 Neo-Classical and Empire Porcelain, 14th May 1991 19th Century Decorative Arts and Paintings Property from the Burbridge Foundation Collection, 11th September 1996 Important European Sculpture and Works of Art Empire, Mobilier, Objets d'Art, Tableaux, Livres et Manuscrits Un portrait de Napoléon à Doccia --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_1_1866.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 477 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_1_1866.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 477 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_1_1866.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 477 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_1_1866.jpg height: 398 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/460/186/large_M_1_1866_mas.jpg height: 1511 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/460/186/mid_M_1_1866_mas.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.1-1866_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/460/186/preview_M_1_1866_mas.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/460/186/M_1_1866_mas.ptif height: 5107 pixels width: 3460 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/842/large_M_1_1866_dc1.jpg height: 1512 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/842/mid_M_1_1866_dc1.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/842/M_1_1866_dc1.jpg height: 5106 pixels width: 3459 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/842/preview_M_1_1866_dc1.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels