Napoleon Bonaparte on Horseback by Emmanuel Fremiet

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Napoleon Bonaparte on Horseback by Emmanuel Fremiet

About the Item

A very detailed bronze statue of Napoleon Bonaparte on Horseback. Signed by Emmanuel Fremiet (1824- 1910) Born in Paris, he was a nephew and pupil of Sophie Fremiet, and later he became a pupil of her husband François Rude.[1] He chiefly devoted himself to animal sculpture. His earliest work was in scientific lithography (osteology), and for a while he served in times of adversity in the gruesome office of painter to the Morgue. In 1843 he sent to the Salon a study of a Gazelle, and after that date worked prolifically. His "Wounded Bear" and "Wounded Dog" were produced in 1850, and the Luxembourg Museum at once secured this striking example of his work. Frémiet's Jeanne d'Arc, Paris In the 1850s, Frémiet produced various Napoleonic works. He first exhibited in the Paris Salon at the age of nineteen with a sculpture of an Algerian gazelle.[2] In 1853, Frémiet, "the leading sculptor of animals in his day" exhibited bronze sculptures of Emperor Napoleon III's basset hounds at the Paris Salon. Soon afterwards, from 1855 to 1859 Frémiet was engaged on a series of military statuettes for Napoleon III, none of which have survived.[3] He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868, and of Louis d'Orleans of 1869 (at the Château de Pierrefonds) and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris; this he afterwards (1889) replaced with another version. During this period he also executed "Pan and the bear cubs", also acquired by the Luxembourg Museum and now in the Musée d'Orsay. In the meanwhile he had exhibited his "Gorilla Carrying off a Woman" which won him a medal of honour at the Salon of 1887. Although praised in its time, this work now evokes ridicule from some observers for its depiction of a gorilla abducting a nude woman, presumably with the intention of raping her. Accordingly, this act has caught the public's imagination, as witnessed by the repeated popularity of the King Kong theme. Of the same character is his "Ourang-Outangs" and "Borneo Savage" of 1895, a commission from the Paris Museum of Natural History. Frémiet also executed the statue of St Michael for the summit of the spire of the Eglise St Michel, and the equestrian statue of Velasquez for the Jardin de l'Infante at the Louvre. Named an Officer of the French Legion of Honor in 1878, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1892, and succeeded Antoine-Louis Barye as professor of animal drawing at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Emmanuel Frémiet died in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Louveciennes.).

Dimensions:
Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 4.73 in (12 cm)
Style:
Empire (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1880
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. The marmer basement is new.
Seller Location:
Sint Annaland, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU10114985132