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Lot 365*

Vincenzo Vela (Italian 1820-1891): A bronze figure of 'The Last Moments of Napoleon'

15 – 16 February 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Vincenzo Vela (Italian 1820-1891): A bronze figure of 'The Last Moments of Napoleon'

the deposed Emperor seated in a throne-like chair brooding over a map of his lost Empire, on canted base, the front signed V.VELA. F. 1867, the rear inscribed F BARBEDIENNE, FONDEUR. and with A. COLLAS BREVETÉ REDUCTION MÉCANIQUE pastille, the underside numbered within the cast " and with indistinct inked number, light to mid brown patination, 19.5cm high

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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.

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