id:			149641
accession number:	1979.37
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.37
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:11.815000

Portrait of Napoléone Elisa Baciocchi, Niece of Napoleon I, 1810–1812. Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian, 1777–1850). Marble; overall: 113 x 39.1 cm (44 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.37

title:				Portrait of Napoléone Elisa Baciocchi, Niece of Napoleon I
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creation date:			1810–1812
creation date earliest:		1810
creation date latest:		1812
current location:		201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
creditline:			The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
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culture:	Italy, 19th century
technique:	marble
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian, 1777–1850)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 113 x 39.1 cm (44 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed in Greek on dog's collar: ARTEMIS (letters originally filled with red pigment)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

	title:		Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
	opening date:   1989-07-11T04:00:00
	<i>Rococo, Revolution, Restoration</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Comtesse Lecoat de Kerveguen (Paris, France)
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	Wildenstein & Co., Inc. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
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wall description:
To extend power across the continent, Napoleon arranged for his sisters to marry into the courts of Europe. The sitter is his niece, daughter of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany (the bee on her cup is a Napoleonic emblem). While the girl’s nakedness might startle us today, in the early 1800s depicting children nude emphasized their purity and innocence. The work takes its cues from ancient sculpture, and while the pet dog adds a note of tenderness, it also refers to Diana, goddess of the moon and hunt.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
	page number: 	cat. 18, p. 95, repr. p. 68
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159667

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