Objects : 3
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Object / IIe République – 2nd Empire/2nd Republic-2nd Empire‘La Danse’: Carpeaux’s sculpture for the façade of the Opéra Garnier
In 1861, to many people’s astonishment, the young architect Charles Garnier (1825-1898) won the competition to design a new opera house in Paris. The project was launched by Napoleon III a short while after Orsini’s attack of 14 January 1858, when the latter had attempted to assassinate the Imperial Couple as they arrived for a […]
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Object / IIe République – 2nd Empire/2nd Republic-2nd EmpireThe Finger of the statue of the Emperor Constantine: from the Campana collection to the Louvre
In June 2018, the Musée du Louvre issued a press release* informing the general public that they had solved a mystery more than 150 years old. Since 1862, the museum has owned a bronze finger, 38 cm in height, clearly a fragment from the hand of an ancient statue. The only thing we knew about […]
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ObjectNapoléon s’éveillant à l’immortalité (Napoleon awakens to immortality)
This bronze – also known as “Le réveil de Napoléon” (Napoleon awakes) – is by the sculptor François Rude and was commissioned in early 1840 by Claude Noisot, a former grenadier-à-pied and captain of the Old Guard. This military man was a faithful devotee of the Emperor, and had participated in the campaigns in Austria […]