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Source Description
This box is chiseled, partially enameled, and set with three oval portrait miniatures representing:1. Napoleon I (1767-1821) wearing the uniform of "chausseurs à cheval." Visible on his chest is the star of the Legion of Honor.2. The "King of Rome" (1811-1832), Napoleon's son by his second wife the Empress Marie-Louise. He wears the band and star of the Legion of Honor.3. Empress Marie-Louise (1791-1847), the daughter of Francis I of Austria, who married Napoleon in 1810. The bees surrounding the miniatures were imperial symbols alluding to the Napoleon's royal predecessors, the Merovingian Frankish kings who ruled France from the 5th-8th centuries. Jewels discovered in their tombs were mistakenly identified as representing bees rather than cicadas.
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Document identity
localId
27098
label
Octagonal Box
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
27098
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Octagonal Box
description
This box is chiseled, partially enameled, and set with three oval portrait miniatures representing:1. Napoleon I (1767-1821) wearing the uniform of "chausseurs à cheval." Visible on his chest is the star of the Legion of Honor.2. The "King of Rome" (1811-1832), Napoleon's son by his second wife the Empress Marie-Louise. He wears the band and star of the Legion of Honor.3. Empress Marie-Louise (1791-1847), the daughter of Francis I of Austria, who married Napoleon in 1810. The bees surrounding the miniatures were imperial symbols alluding to the Napoleon's royal predecessors, the Merovingian Frankish kings who ruled France from the 5th-8th centuries. Jewels discovered in their tombs were mistakenly identified as representing bees rather than cicadas.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1813
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
snuffboxes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
2
height
5.4
dimensionsRaw
13/16 x 2 1/8 in. (2 x 5.4 cm)
Source extras
med
gold, enamel, watercolor on ivory, glass
creator_ids
6229
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2689
1954
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
aa17d52e8bd2a6e9