Auction on
24 May 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) designed Napoleon’s ceremonial coronation garments and painted the first portrait of the King of Rome. Who else could have been selected to design this table for the imperial family with a porcelain top?
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), project for Sèvres, the imperial family’s table, 1811, gouache watercolor, pen and black ink, diam. 35.5 cm/13.98 in. Estimate: €30,000/50,000
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), project for Sèvres, the imperial family’s table, 1811, gouache watercolor, pen and black ink, diam. 35.5 cm/13.98 in. Estimate: €30,000/50,000
Fontainebleau, the Louvre, Malmaison and the Sèvres porcelain manufactory could be competing with each other on May 24. This watercolor is a precious example of artistic heritage, a milestone in an extraordinary enterprise that never saw the light of day. The imperial manufactory of Sèvres enjoyed one of its most prosperous periods under the First Empire thanks to Napoleon I ’s patronage. Eager to promote French art and…
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