G82: Napoleon, Battle of Austerlitz
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G82
- People
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Pierre Audouin, French (Paris 1768 - 1822 Paris)
Edme Bovinet, French (Chaumont 1767 - 1832 Creil)
After Charles de Châtillon, French (Doullens, France 1777 - 1844)
After Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, French (Paris 1747 - 1819 Paris)
- Title
- Napoleon, Battle of Austerlitz
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Bataille d'Austerlitz
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1806
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/276351
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving on cream wove paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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Image: 41 × 27.5 cm (16 1/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 46.6 × 27.5 cm (18 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, center left below portrait: Peint par Charles de Chatillon.
- inscription: in plate, center below portrait: Dessiné par H. Laurent.
- inscription: in plate, center right below portrait: Gravé par P. Audouin, Membre de l'Académie Impériale-Royal des Arts de Vienne.
- inscription: in plate, lower left below battle scene: Composée, dessinée, et Gravée par Duplessi-Bertaux.
- inscription: in plate, lower right below battle scene: Terminée par Bovinet
- inscription: bottom left corner: Déposé à la Bibliotheque Impériale.
- inscription: bottom center: Imprimé par Ramboz.
- inscription: bottom right corner: se vend, à Paris chez Pierre Audouin, Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, No. 39
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- M.45, De Vinck 7853.1
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G82
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of Napoleon in imperial robes above a depiction of the battle of Austerlitz.
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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