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Lot 164*

The Last Moments of Napoleon, a cast bronze figure by Vicenzo Vela (Italian 1820-1891)
19th century

27 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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The Last Moments of Napoleon, a cast bronze figure by Vicenzo Vela (Italian 1820-1891)

19th century
The bronze figure seated in a chair, brooding over a map of his lost Empire, signed V.VELA and inscribed F BARBIDIENNE, FONDEUR

19cm high

Footnotes

Vela exhibited his model at the Salon of 1867. It struck an immediate chord with a public whose anxiety over the eclipse of their country by Prussia was equalled by a nostalgia for the First Empire

EXHIBITED:
Waterloo Memorial Museum, 'Napoléon: de Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène, la naissance de la légende,' 5 May to 17 October 2021

LITERATURE:
Wardropper, I. & Licht, F., Chiselled With a Brush, Italian Sculpture 1860-1925 from the Gilgore Collections, Chicago, 1994, p.36. no.1

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