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Joséphine, Empress of the French

Also known as: Joséphine, Empress of the French; primary name: Joséphine; other name: Beauharnais, Joséphine de; other name: Bonaparte, Joséphine; other name: Tascher de la Pagerie, Marie Josèphe Rose de
Details: individual; royal/imperial; French; Female
Life dates: 1763-1814
Biography: Born Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie; first married General Alexandre Viscount of Beauharnais (1779) and bore him two children, Hortense and Eugène (q.v.); later married to Napoléon Bonaparte (1796), she became Empress of the French from 1804 to her divorce in 1810.

121 related objects

book; print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1864,611.159-167 |
Producer name: After:Carle VernetAfter:Jean Duplessi-Bertaux |
Production date: 1824 |
Production place: Designed in:Paris (France)Published in:London (England)

calendar watch; watch-case

Museum number: 1958,1201.397 |
Producer name: Movement made by:Breguet & FilsDial made by:John Wilter |
Production place: Movement made in:Paris (France)Dial made in:London (England)

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1891,1117.111 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Drawn by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1823

medal

Museum number: 1947,0607.605 |
Producer name: BIOG216422 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:PG Liénard |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Made in:France

print

Title: L'Impératrice en petit costume Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1856,0308.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean François RibaultAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: L'Impératrice Joséphine |
Museum number: 1900,1231.988 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820-1850

print

Title: Madame Bonaparte, Gemalhin der ersten Consuls |
Museum number: Bb,8.175 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jakob Samuel WalwertPrint made by:Georg Christoph Walwert |
Production date: 1800-1804

print; book-illustration

Title: Joséphine |
Museum number: 1882,0211.589 |
Producer name: Print made by:William HopwoodAfter:Pierre Paul Prud'hon |
Production date: 1845-1869

print

Museum number: 1861,1012.437 |
Producer name: After:Jacques Louis DavidPrint made by:Michel Olivier Lebas |
Production date: 1804

print

Title: L'Impératrice Joséphine |
Museum number: 1903,0516.18.56 |
Producer name: BIOG42753 After:Pierre Paul Prud'hon |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: Galeries historiques de Versailles |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1031 |
Producer name: After:Baron François GérardPublished by:Charles Gavard |
Production date: 1838-1845

print

Title: L'Impératrice en petit costume Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1052 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean François RibaultAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: L'Impératrice en petit costume Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1850,0211.96 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean François RibaultAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: Livre du Sacre Le Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon |
Museum number: 1855,0714.72 |
Producer name: Print made by:Georges MalbesteAfter:Charles Percier |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: The Marchioness of Tweedale as the Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1931,0724.109 |
Producer name: Print made by:Walker & BoutallPhotographed by:Lafayette Ltd |
Production date: 1897-1931

print

Title: Sir Charles Hartopp, as Napoleon I. Lady Hartopp, as the Empress Josephine. |
Museum number: 1931,0724.245 |
Producer name: Print made by:Walker & BoutallAfter:Henry Van der Weyde |
Production date: 1897-1899

print

Title: Institution des Octogenaires par sa Mte. l'Imperatrice Josephine |
Museum number: 1925,0615.151 |
Producer name: Print made by:Nicolas Louis RousseauPublished by:Noël Frères |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Napoléon 1er. ... couronne son auguste epouse |
Museum number: 1925,0615.149 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Paul André Basset |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: S. A. I. le Prince Eugène Napoléon |
Museum number: 1925,1215.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Michel AlixPublished by:Jauffret |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Le Couronnement |
Museum number: 2000,U.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Yves QuéverdoPrint made by:François Pigeot |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: Injecting blood royal or phlebotomy at St Cloud |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7276 |
Producer name: BIOG31858 Published by:William Holland |
Production date: 1804

print

Title: Les onctions Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.109 |
Producer name: Print made by:Rémi DelvauxAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1805-1815

print

Title: L'arrivé à Notre-Dame Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.107 |
Producer name: BIOG25960 Print made by:Jean Baptiste Michel Dupréel |
Production date: 1805-1815

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.2931 |
Producer name: BIOG24584 After:Jacques Louis David |
Production date: 1804

print

Title: L'Impératrice en petit costume Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.76 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean François RibaultAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: L'Impératrice - Grand costume Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.74 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre AudouinAfter:Charles Percier |
Production date: 1808

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: L'Impératrice Joséphine dans les jardins de la Malmaison |
Museum number: 1879,0510.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Yves & BarretAfter:Pierre Paul Prud'hon |
Production date: 1877

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: L'Impératrice Joséphine |
Museum number: 1879,0510.104 |
Producer name: Print made by:Yves & BarretAfter:Pierre Paul Prud'hon |
Production date: 1877

print

Title: Eufrosine / Aglaia / Talia |
Museum number: 1865,0708.883 |
Producer name: Print made by:Domenico MarchettiAfter:Antonio Canova |
Production date: 1813

print

Title: Prestation du serment le jour du couronnement de ... Napoléon 1er. |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3966 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Adrien Le BeauAfter:Naudet |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Fêtes du sacre et couronnement de Leurs Majestés Impériales |
Museum number: 1925,0701.75 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis LecoeurPublished by:Jacques Louis Bance (Bance aîné) |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Couronnement de Napoleon |
Museum number: 1870,1008.908 |
Producer name: After:Jacques Louis DavidPublished by:Leloutre |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Fête du sacre et couronnement de leurs Majestés Impériales |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1176 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis LecoeurPublished by:Jacques Louis Bance (Bance aîné) |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1917,1208.3791 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1806

print

Title: Tombeau de Josephine |
Museum number: 1930,0130.27 |
Producer name: Print made by:Augustin LemaîtrePrinted by:Delpech |
Production date: 1829

print

Title: S. M. I. R. Joséphine Impératrice des Français, Re Collection des portraits de la famille impériale e |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3795 |
Producer name: After:Jean François BosioPrint made by:Domenico Cavalli |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:Milan (city)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage to Josephine. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2750 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleone the 1st, Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre Da |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7312 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1850,1014.810 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Josephine |
Museum number: 1900,1231.987 |
Producer name: BIOG130142 Published by:Henry Colburn |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1176 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Anthony DeanPublished by:Henry Colburn |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Madame Buonaparte |
Museum number: 1900,1231.984 |
Producer name: Print made by:K MackenzieAfter:William Marshall Craig |
Production date: 1808 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Madame Bonaparte's Intercession or Second Thoughts are Best |
Museum number: 1985,0119.174 |
Producer name: Print made by:John NixonPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Ci-devant occupations-or-Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7324 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; map

Title: The Campaign of Waterloo Mr. Bowyer's Splendid Work of the Campaign of Wate |
Museum number: 1949,0114.7.1-7 |
Producer name: Published by:Robert BowyerPrinted by:Thomas Bensley |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Hand-Writing upon the Wall. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7178 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:James Gillray |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Ci-devant occupations-or-Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The progress of Boney!!! |
Museum number: 1935,0522.10.247 |
Producer name: Print made by:J Lewis MarksPublished by:J Harrison |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: News from Calabria! Capture of Buenos Ayres! i.e. the comforts of an imperial déjeuné at St Cloud's |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.161 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The consular family on their last journey. |
Museum number: 1985,0119.379 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Crowning himself Emperor of France. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2764 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Napoleon le Grande |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1813 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal beggars | Satirist February 1st 1814. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12752 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleone the 1st Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre Dam |
Museum number: 1863,0110.141 |
Producer name: BIOG28991 Print made by:James Gillray |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The royal beggars. | Satirist February 1st 1814. |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7188 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1900,1231.986 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1844-1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Otium cum dignitate, or a view of Elba. Satirist May 1st 1813. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12713 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Hand-Writing upon the Wall. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1124 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:James Gillray |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal beggars | Satirist February 1st 1814. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2034 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Bonaparte. |
Museum number: 1861,0518.1236 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Laurie & Whittle |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Madame Buonaparte |
Museum number: 1856,0712.668 |
Producer name: BIOG219023 Published by:Jacques Simon Chéreau |
Production date: 1796-1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Fasti di Napoleone |
Museum number: 1872,0113.697 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco RosaspinaAfter:Andrea Appiani |
Production date: 1807-1816

print

Title: Joséphine Iconographie des contemporains depuis 1789 |
Museum number: 1919,0415.711 |
Producer name: Print made by:Zéphirin BelliardPrinted by:Delpech |
Production date: 1829

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 2006,U.591 |
Producer name: After:Jacques Louis DavidIntermediary draughtsman:August Will |
Production date: 1895

print; book-illustration

Title: thirty facsimiles signatures from the originals |
Museum number: 1865,0311.182 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1851

print

Title: Couronement de l'Empereur Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.110 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques LavalléeAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1805-1815

print

Title: Prestation de serment Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.111 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Louis Charles PauquetPrint made by:Jean Louis Delignon |
Production date: 1805-1815

print; satirical print

Title: Nic alias Nap's march to Elba or the downfall of the Napolean dynasty. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8147 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: The progress of the Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1808

print

Museum number: 1895,0509.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Auguste Achille MorseAfter:Jacques Louis David |
Production date: 1893 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: L'arrivé à Notre-Dame Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.106 |
Producer name: BIOG25960 Print made by:Jean Baptiste Michel Dupréel |
Production date: 1805-1815

print

Title: Livre du Sacre Le Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon |
Museum number: 1855,0714.71 |
Producer name: Print made by:Adrien GodefroyAfter:Charles Percier |
Production date: 1811-1816

print

Museum number: 1898,1108.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Émile Jean SulpisAfter:Jacques Louis David |
Production date: 1885-1898

print

Museum number: 1983,U.2960 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Marie NormandAfter:Jean François Ribault |
Production date: 1814-1874

print

Title: L'Impératrice Eugénie |
Museum number: 1905,0414.220 |
Producer name: BIOG51401 After:Franz Xaver Winterhalter |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: Galerie Leuchtenberg |
Museum number: 1851,1213.386 |
Producer name: Print made by:Nepomuk MuxelAfter:Baron François Gérard |
Production date: 1829-1850

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Representation of the coronation of Napoleon I, in the church of Notre-Dame, containing portraits of |
Museum number: 1900,1231.972 |
Producer name: BIOG31489 Print made by:Robert Hicks |
Production date: 1808-1810

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1913,0909.2 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Henry WolfAfter:Baron François Gérard |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: Joséphine Empératrice des Français, née le 24 juin 1768 |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3794 |
Producer name: Print made by:John GodefroyAfter:Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.7401 |
Producer name: BIOG24584 After:Jacques Louis David |
Production date: 1880s-1890s

print

Title: Grand époques du règne de Napoléon 1er |
Museum number: 1925,0615.152 |
Producer name: BIOG24578 Print made by:François Anne David |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1926,0412.138 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Fasti di Napoleone Fastes de Napoléon |
Museum number: 1837,1130.1.1-32 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco RosaspinaPrint made by:Giuseppe Rosaspina |
Production date: 1807-1816

print; satirical print

Title: Johnny Bull, on the look-out, |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7191 |
Producer name: BIOG119199 Published by:Laurie & Whittle |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: The progress of the Empress Josephine |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7636 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: The valley of the shadow of death. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8037 |
Producer name: Print made by:William ElmesPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1812

print

Title: Cent jours de la vie d'un Grand Homme |
Museum number: 2014,7007.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Nicolas Eustache MaurinPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1862,1217.491 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Cadell & Davies |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Edinburgh

print

Title: The Divorce of Josephine |
Museum number: 1900,1231.960 |
Producer name: Print made by:François de MeersmanAfter:Frédéric Henri Schopin |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Napoleon le Grande |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1813 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Johnny Bull, on the look-out |
Museum number: 1861,0518.1037 |
Producer name: BIOG119199 Published by:Laurie & Whittle |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Napoleon, when First Consul, and Madame Josephine |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2352 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1824 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: News from Calabria!-Capture of Buenos Ayres!-i.e.-The Comforts of an Imperial Déjeuné at St Cloud's. |
Museum number: 1981,U.352 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Boney the Second or the little babboon created to devour French monkies |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.45 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Bonaparte. Written by Mr Lawler; introduced by Mr Elliston, and sung by him, with unbounded applause |
Museum number: 1861,0518.1238 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Laurie & Whittle |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleone the 1st Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre Dam |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1159 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: News from Calabria! -capture of Buenos Ayres! -i.e.- the comforts of an imperial déjeuné at St Cloud |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7486 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Madame Bonaparte |
Museum number: 2010,7081.738 |
Producer name: BIOG159721 Published by:J Hinton |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Ci-devant occupations-or-Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1162 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The handwriting upon the wall. The reconciliation |
Museum number: 1978,U.908 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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