The Last Moments of Napoleon, a cast bronze figure by Vicenzo Vela (Italian 1820-1891)
19th century
19th century
The bronze figure seated in a chair, brooding over a map of his lost Empire, signed V.VELA and inscribed F BARBIDIENNE, FONDEUR
19cm high
Vela exhibited his model at the Salon of 1867. It struck an immediate chord with a public whose anxiety over the eclipse of their country by Prussia was equalled by a nostalgia for the First Empire
EXHIBITED:
Waterloo Memorial Museum, 'Napoléon: de Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène, la naissance de la légende,' 5 May to 17 October 2021
LITERATURE:
Wardropper, I. & Licht, F., Chiselled With a Brush, Italian Sculpture 1860-1925 from the Gilgore Collections, Chicago, 1994, p.36. no.1
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19th century
19th century
The bronze figure seated in a chair, brooding over a map of his lost Empire, signed V.VELA and inscribed F BARBIDIENNE, FONDEUR
19cm high
Vela exhibited his model at the Salon of 1867. It struck an immediate chord with a public whose anxiety over the eclipse of their country by Prussia was equalled by a nostalgia for the First Empire
EXHIBITED:
Waterloo Memorial Museum, 'Napoléon: de Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène, la naissance de la légende,' 5 May to 17 October 2021
LITERATURE:
Wardropper, I. & Licht, F., Chiselled With a Brush, Italian Sculpture 1860-1925 from the Gilgore Collections, Chicago, 1994, p.36. no.1