A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF THE LAST DAYS OF NAPOLEON,

CAST AFTER A MODEL BY VINCENZO VELA, 19TH CENTURY,

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A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF THE LAST DAYS OF NAPOLEON,
CAST AFTER A MODEL BY VINCENZO VELA, 19TH CENTURY,
the base inscribed V. VELA and F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR.
16½in. (42cm.) high, 9½in. (24cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

Provenance

The Geraldine Rockerfeller Dodge Collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 February 1976, lot 32.

Sale room notice

Please be advised of the correction to the lot note:

Vela's original life-size marble version of The Last Days of Napoleon was exhibited at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris and immediately acquired for the State by Napoleon III. It is now located in the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois Préau outside Paris. A second marble version is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. The model was subsequently edited in varying sizes by Barbedienne.

Lot Essay

Vela's original life-size marble version of The Last Days of Napoleon was exhibited at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris and immediately acquired for the State by Napoleon III. It is now located in the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois Préau outside Paris. A second marble version is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. The model was subsequently edited in varying sizes by Barbedienne.

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