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| Keywords: Napoleon Enthroned with Allegorical Figures of Peace and Victory by Andrea Appiani.jpg Artwork 1806 oil on wood panel 38 x 46 cm Institution Pushkin Museum accession number 2012 object history exhibition history Held in the collection of Eugénie de Beauharnais in 1814; in the collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg Munich-St Petersburg-Petrograd 1824-1918; in the State Museums Foundation from 1918; in the Rumyantsev Museum from 1920; in the Pushkin Museum since 1924 credit line Signature and date bottom right Appiani 1806 The inscription on the steps of the throne reads MIHI SEMPER DEUS This picture from the Pushkin Museum can be traced back to one of the compositions painted by Appiani in the period 1801-1807 within the framework of an extensive programme entitled Fasti di Napoleone Annals of Napoleon the idea behind which had been the glorification of the French Emperor This cycle had been designed to decorate the Hall of the Caryatids in the Palazzo Reale in Milan destroyed in 1943 http //www italian-art ru/canvas/19-20_century/a/appiani_andrea/napoleon_entroned php lang en PD-old-100 PD-old-100 Andrea Appiani Paintings from Italy in the Pushkin Museum Classicist paintings in the Pushkin Museum Paintings of Napoleon I | ||||
