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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).
Publication Received
The Road to Impressionism. Joséphine Bowes and Painting in Nineteenth Century France
01/2004 | 1210 | 146
Pages: 38
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Reviewer:
Beechey, James (Beechey, James)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bowes, Josephine
print:
Impressionism
Reviewed Items
print:
The Road to Impressionism. Joséphine Bowes and Painting in Nineteenth Century France | author: Barker, Amy , author: Coutts, Howard , author: Jenkins, Adrian