Just-Pierret L’HERNAULT.1832-1922. after Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Portrait of Emperor Napoleon III

About 1860

by David Chanteranne, editor-in-chief of Napoleon I Revue du Souvenir Napoléonien. A lecturer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, he has published around twenty books, including The Twelve Deaths of Napoleon (Passés Composés). After being a conservation attaché at the Napoleon Museum in Brienne-le-Château, then director of the Bertrand Museum in Châteauroux, he now directs the heritage sites of the town of Rueil-Malmaison.

Wednesday October 12 at 7:30 p.m.

The art of portraiture of a sovereign is not always made up of rigor or conformity, quite the contrary. Through the demands and constraints imposed, he frequently reveals the desiderata of the monarch, often at the height of his glory. This conference will present the changes observed in these orders, most of them official, which have fixed the features of the Head of State, from Louis XIV to Napoleon III, and sometimes beyond...

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