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This forms one of a set of matching busts of the Napoleonic family made by the goldsmith 'L'Orfevre Biennais'
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BY MARTIN-GUILLAUME BIENNAIS, CIRCA 1808
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BY MARTIN-GUILLAUME BIENNAIS, CIRCA 1808
Set on a plinth with an applied crown and inscribed to the reverse 'BIENNAIS OREVRE DE LLMM. IMP LES ET ROY LES A PARIS'
10 in. (26 cm.) high
Set on a plinth with an applied crown and inscribed to the reverse 'BIENNAIS OREVRE DE LLMM. IMP LES ET ROY LES A PARIS'
10 in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
F.J.B. Watson and thence by descent.
Exhibited
Le Roi Louis Napoleon et la Hollande de son Epoque, Institut Neerlandais, Paris 1959; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1959, (Cat No.34.)
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