The Emperor
The Emperor
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The original
Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Charles Edouard Boutibonne, 1857, Cliffe Castle Museum, accession L3B-1989.
The story
Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, later Napoleon III, was president of the French Republic before becoming Emperor of the French. Boutibonne’s portrait gives him the formal presence expected of a nineteenth-century ruler, with all the attendant seriousness.
Fine Art Paper: museum-quality fine-art reproduction. Matte Cotton Canvas: a softly textured canvas finish for a more traditional painted appearance.
Category: THE GENTLEMAN.
Original source: Cliffe Castle Museum, Bradford Museums and Galleries