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Cardinal Joseph Fesch

Also known as: Cardinal Joseph Fesch; primary name: Fesch, Joseph
Details: individual; cleric/religious official; collector; French; Male
Life dates: 1763-1839
Biography: Cardinal and collector, Archbishop of Lyon (1802-39); half-brother of Laetitia Bonaparte (q.v.), acted as a surrogate uncle to her son Napoléon (q.v.), who appointed him ambassador at Rome (1803-06); created Cardinal (1803), made Senator (1804), Great Almoner (1805-1810), and Prince of the Empire (1807). He is responsible for persuading Pope Pius VII to crown Napoléon I (1804). However his undefectible loyalty to the pope (who was held hostage at Fontainebleau) meant his relationship with Napoléon turned sour, and he was deprived of his title of Great Almoner and part of his revenue. Fesch retired to Rome in 1814, although he briefly returned to France during the Hundred-Days and was appointed member of the Chambre des Pairs. After Napoleon's fall he was definitively banished from France and went back to Rome, where he died. He had always refused to resign from his see at Lyon. He brought together a great collection, now displayed in the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio (Corsica); bequest of much of his art collection to the city of Lyon.

24 related objects

bust

Museum number: 1865,0103.8 |
Cultures/periods: x14450 Roman |
Production date: 222-235

jug

Museum number: 1887,0617.47 |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Moustiers-Sainte-Marie

print

Title: Grand aumônier Livre du Sacre |
Museum number: 1855,0714.82 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre AudouinAfter:Jean Baptiste Isabey |
Production date: 1805-1815

print; satirical print

Title: The Imperial Coronation. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7283 |
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; book-illustration

Title: Acts of adhesion!!! / Satirist June 1st. 1814 |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7196 |
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

Title: Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon |
Museum number: 1850,1014.824 |
Producer name: Print made by:W ReadAfter:Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Tiddy-doll, the great French-Gingerbread-Baker drawing out a new Batch of Kings. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.44 |
Producer name: BIOG28991 After:James Gillray |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Acts of Adhesion!!! | Satirist June 1st 1814. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12786 |
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 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; satirical print

Title: Tiddy-doll, the great French-Gingerbread-Baker;drawing out a new Batch of Kings. |
Museum number: J,3.104 |
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: 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: Acts of Adhesion!!! | Satirist June 1st 1814. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2037 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Tiddy-doll, the great French-Gingerbread-Baker;drawing out a new Batch of Kings. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1187 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Crowning himself Emperor of France. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2299 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Nursing the spawn of a tyrant, or Frenchmen sick of the breed |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.47 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Tiddy-doll, the great French-gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batch of kings.- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7410 |
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: 1868,0808.7976 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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

Title: Cardinal Fesch |
Museum number: 1929,0608.133 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cäcilie BrandtPrint made by:August Kneisel |
Production date: 1830s

print

Title: Joseph Fesch Adjacensis S. R. E. Cardinalis tituli S. Lauretii in Lucina... |
Museum number: 1926,0412.159 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gioacchino LepriPublished by:Calcografia Romana |
Production date: 1803-1810 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Cardinal Fesch |
Museum number: 1926,0412.158 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles BourAfter:Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux |
Production date: 1851

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