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Joséphine Bowes’s gift to Napoleon III: Antoine-Jean Gros’s ‘Napoleon distributing the cross of the Legion of Honour to artists during his visit to the Salon of 1808’
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 626-629
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Author:
Phillips, Judith (Phillips, Judith)
Author:
Spier, Simon (Spier, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Gros, Antoine-Jean
collectors and dealers:
Bowes, John, 1811-1885 / Bowes, Josephine
museums and institutions:
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, Great Britain / Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
subjects:
French art / Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 / Provenance / Gifts / Collecting / Collections
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Napoleon distributing the Cross of the Legion of Honour to artists during his visit to the Salon of 1808, by Antoine-Jean Gros. 1808. Oil on canvas, 350 by 640 cm. (Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
8. Writing desk. France, c.1750. Lacquer with gilded bronze mounts, 105 by 120 by 60 cm. (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle).