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The Emperor Napoleon as a Roman Consul
The Emperor Napoleon as a Roman Consul

The Emperor Napoleon as a Roman Consul

Artist Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763 - 1810)
Dateca. 1806
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 24 inches (60.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc.
Object number66-26/7
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The Taste of Napoleon: A Loan Exhibition, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, October 2-November 16, 1969, no. 49.

Heads of State and Some Friends, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 4-February 6, 1983, no. 22.

Provenance

Private collection, England;

Given by Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., New York, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1966.

Published References

[?]. Haskins, “Clock a Reminder of Napoleon’s Glory,” The Kansas City Times (October 27, 1966), clipping, scrapbook, NAMA Archives, vol. 22, p. 55.

Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 10 (1969).

Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, eds., Vergoldete Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. 2 (Munich: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1986), 674, as petite statuette de Napoléon par Chaudet, sur socle jaune et griotte, orné de masques en rouge antique.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 198, (repro.), as The Emperor Napoleon as a Roman Consul.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 109, (repro.), as The Emperor Napoleon as a Roman Consul.

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