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Style: Empire
Period: Early 20th Century
20th Century French Oil Painting of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor by S. Chapin
By Chapin
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage French oil on canvas painting of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor in a hand carved original gilded wooden frame, painted by S. Chapin in good condition. The wall décor art pie...
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French Empire Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Miniature Portraits of Napoleon II & Imperatrice Marie Louise of Austria
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of hand painted miniature framed portraits of Napoleon II and his mother the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. Marie Louise was Napoleon's...
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European Empire Antique Early 20th Century Paintings
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Pair of French Empire Portraits of an Aristocratic Couple by Antoine Borel
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of original oil paintings on canvas depicting a handsome young aristocratic couple of the Directoire, early Empire period. They are each pictured from the waist up, she holdin...
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French Empire Early 20th Century Paintings
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Canvas
"C'est L'Empereur !" Antique Oil on Canvas after Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook
Located in Dallas, TX
According to the book, History of the First Napoleon, by Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de Porquet, the scene portrayed in this oil on canvas painting is a historical event. Originally by the British painter, Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook in 1890 (ours is an interpretation by L. Garnier), C’est L’Empereur depicts Napoleon himself standing watch in a field during the Revolutionary War.
Napoleon is positioned in between two haystacks that dot the field. He is dressed in his typical battle uniform of a colonel in the Chasseurs à Cheval de La Garde Impériale, which is a grayish-green overcoat...
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French Empire Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
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