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Object Type
Museum number: 1926,0412.137
Title: Object: L'espoir de la postérité
Description: Napoleon and Marie Louise with their newborn son; the Empress sitting by her son's lavish cradle, Napoleon standing by her side, leaning on a mantlepiece; the room is Marie Louise's bedroom (in the Tuileries Palace?); the walls are decorared with ornament panels featuring classical figures. 1811 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Adrien Godefroy; After: Adolphe Roehn; Published by: Vilquin
School/style
Production date: 1811
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 335 millimetres (cut); Width: 422 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For complete impression see 1850,0211.89, for which also see comment.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: interior; palace/mansion
Associated names: Portrait of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Portrait of: Marie Louise, Empress of the French and Duchess of Parma; Portrait of: Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt
Associated events: Associated Event: Birth of Napoléon II 1811; Associated Event: Italian campaigns 1792-1797
Acquisition name: Purchased from: David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres; Purchased through: Sotheby's (1.xii.1925/437); Purchased through: Thomas Agnew & Sons
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1926
Acquisition notes: Sotheby's catalogue makes it clear that the collection was formed by the vendor's father.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1926,0412.137

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