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Discover the extraordinary house and museum of Sir John Soane, one of the greatest English architects, who built and lived in it two centuries ago. The museum has been kept as it was at the time of his death in 1837, and displays his vast collection of antiquities, furniture, sculptures, architectural models and paintings.
This portrait is after a painting by Gérard. Napoleon is shown in his coronation robes standing full-length in front of a throne, holding a staff and with an orb beside him. The border features repeat 'N' initials within crowned laurel wreaths. The title is framed by imperial symbols (the orb, crown &c.) above garlands held up by eagles.
Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects and a large collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and antiquities that he acquired over ...
This plaster bust was thought by Soane to be after a bust of Napoleon by the Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova. However, it is in fact based upon (or a cast of) a similar bust by Antoine-Denis Chaudet now in the Louvre in Paris.
The British architect and collector, Sir John Soane, visited Paris three times. First, at the beginning of his Grand Tour, in March 1778, en route to Italy. Then again in August-September 1814, during the brief cessation in hostilities between Britain and France, during Napoleon’s exile on the Island of Elba.
The picture was in Soane's collection by 1830 when Soane's refers to it in his Description; it is not mentioned by Britton in 1827. As Maria Cosway and Soane were friends it seems likely that the picture was a gift from her to Soane.
31 de jul. de 2014 · The Soane Museum’s curator Jerzy Kierkuć-Bieliński talks about how Napoleon and Anglo-French relations influenced John Soane and 19th century British architecture.
