Tableaux, Sculptures et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe siècle

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Lot 116
  • 116

Joseph Franque et son atelier

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Joseph Franque et son atelier
  • Empress Marie-Louise watching over the Roi de Rome asleep
  • Oil on canvas
  • 55 x 45 cm ; 21 3/4 by 17 3/4 in.

Provenance

Première Vente de la Succession de M. Frédéric Mallet, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 9-10th 1938, illustrated pl. VII, n°149, probably purchased back from a member of the Mallet family ;
Kept in the family

Exhibited

Exposition des Enfants d'Autrefois, Library of Versailles, Versailles, June 1931, n°116 (belonging to M. Frédéric Mallet)

Catalogue Note

Joseph Franque paints the Portrait of the Empress watching over the Roi de Rome asleep in 1811 for Napoleon (kept at the Musée du Château de Versailles). It is presented at the 1812 Salon. Given the popularity of the scene, Franque executes a replica for the Court of Vienna, which is most probably the painting we are here presenting.