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Source Description
Cabanel enjoyed a rapid rise to fame, winning a first-class medal and being appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1855. He also became a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863. This painting replicates a once-lost official portrait commissioned in 1865 for the apartments of Empress Eugénie in the Tuileries Palace. Scoffing critics of Napoleon III's regime dismissed the original work as "a portrait of a hotel manager." In 2009, the full-length portrait was rediscovered in storage at the chateau of Compiegne.
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Document identity
localId
5312
label
Napoleon III
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
5312
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Napoleon III
description
Cabanel enjoyed a rapid rise to fame, winning a first-class medal and being appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1855. He also became a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863. This painting replicates a once-lost official portrait commissioned in 1865 for the apartments of Empress Eugénie in the Tuileries Palace. Scoffing critics of Napoleon III's regime dismissed the original work as "a portrait of a hotel manager." In 2009, the full-length portrait was rediscovered in storage at the chateau of Compiegne.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1887-1893 (?), by purchase [perhaps the Cabanel ""sketch"" purchased by G. A. Lucas at Chevalier's, May 27-28, 1889]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1865
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
portraits
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
41
height
32
dimensionsRaw
H: 16 1/8 x W: 12 5/8 in. (41 x 32 cm); Framed H with buildup: 23 x W: 17 1/2 x D: 5 in. (58.26 x 44.45 x 12.7 cm); Framed H without buildup: 23 x W: 17 1/2 x D: 3 1/4 in. (58.42 x 44.45 x 8.26 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In lower left in black cursive lettering: Ale Cabanel; [Signature] In lower right in brown block letters: Al. Cabanel
med
oil on red painted hardwood panel
creator_ids
3616
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EAN
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2141
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532
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3607
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1
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0
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photo
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