Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890
Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890
Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890
Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890
Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890
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Equestrian Bronze Figure of Napoleon I on Marengo, 1890

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Height overall: 30.6cm (12in)

Bronze raised on a rosso antico marble base on black plinth. Emperor Napoleon I portrayed on mounted and wearing bicorne and greatcoat, his head turned slightly to the left, the whole set on a naturalistically modelled base. Height of bronze: 21cm. 

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In the manner of the Second Empire sculptor Count Alfred Émilien O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892). Nieuwerkerke was the son of the Dutch Legitimist officer who returned to Paris with Louis XVIII in 1815. After serving as a page to Charles X in 1825, he entered the Ecole Royale de Cavalerie at Saumur in 1829, but abandoned his career on Charles X's fall in the July Revolution of 1830. During an Italian sojourn he discovered an aptitude for sculpture and on returning to France studied under Pradier and Baron Carlo Marochetti. He subsequently became a practitioner and propagandist of the Second Empire, holding a political post equivalent of the Minister of Arts under the regime of Louis Napoleon.