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Portrait of Napoleon I
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Wool silk silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Joseph Pulitzer Bequest 1943
After a painting by baron François Gérard (Artist)
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (Manufactory)
Workshop of Michel Henri Cozette (Workshop director)
Woven by Harland the Elder (Maker)
Woven by Abel Nicolas Sollier (Maker)
Woven by Charles Duruy (Maker)
Commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte (Patron)
Title: Portrait of Napoleon I
Description:
Wool silk silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch 10-12 per cm.
); gilded pine frame.
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