"Tinsel Picture": Napoleon in His Study

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Napoleon sitting on a green couch, reading; the young King of Rome asleep on his knee; book shelves, maps and a man writing behind him; the picture surrounded by dark brown margins with gold foil in the corners.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Dedicatee
Napoleon Bonaparte, French, 1769 – 1821
Date
ca. 1860
Credit Line
Gift of Hamill and Barker
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph on paper, with applied, machine-cut, embossed gold paper, shredded mica and pailettes, brush and gouache on thick white wove paper
Dimensions
50.3 x 43.6 cm (19 13/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Type
figures
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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