Bust of Napoleon I
Antoine Denis Chaudet
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 35 x 18 x 15 cm
- Vendor
- Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris
Bust of Napoleon I, after A.
D.Chaudet, a reduction of the official marble portrait bust of 1804 made by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, owned by Napoleon but since lost. A porcelain version was made at Sevres from 1805 in three sizes, of which this is the second. It was moulded after a model by Alexandre Brachard, head of the sculpture department at Sevres, then worked up by one of his assistants, Jacques-Jean Oger.
Provenance
Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris.