Vendome column with tomb of Napoleon
about 1840-1870
Medium/TechniqueBronze
DimensionsOverall: 59.7 x 18.4 x 18.4 cm (23 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf
Accession number2016.405.1-2
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ProvenancePossibly Empress Eugénie (b. 1826 – d. 1920), Farnborough, England; 1927, possibly sold by her descendants [see note]. April 25, 1997, sold by Jim’s Antiques, Ltd., Lambertville, NJ, to Frederic and Jean Sharf, Chestnut Hill, MA; 2016, gift of Frederic and Jean Sharf to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 28, 2016)
NOTE: When this was sold in 1997, it was identified with a column that had belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, which was exhibited and published in Exposition de Napoléon Ier a Napoléon III: Souvenirs de la Famille Impériale Conservés par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession, Paris 1928, cat. no. 111 (ill). The column appears to be identical or nearly identical to the present object. The foreword to the catalogue explains that the objects exhibited had been part of the estate at the castle of Farnborough, which had to be sold at auction. The auction took place the previous year.
NOTE: When this was sold in 1997, it was identified with a column that had belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, which was exhibited and published in Exposition de Napoléon Ier a Napoléon III: Souvenirs de la Famille Impériale Conservés par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession, Paris 1928, cat. no. 111 (ill). The column appears to be identical or nearly identical to the present object. The foreword to the catalogue explains that the objects exhibited had been part of the estate at the castle of Farnborough, which had to be sold at auction. The auction took place the previous year.
about 1830
mid-19th century
about 1750
about 1840-1860
late 17th or early 18th century
about 1780
About 1780–90
1836
about 1740
