Image

RISDM 45-113-59.tif

Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers

Napoléon le Grand (Portrait of Napoleon the Great)

Description

Maker

Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (French, 1779-1857), engraver
After Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard (French, 1770-1837), designer
Ramboz, printer

Title

Napoléon le Grand (Portrait of Napoleon the Great)

Year

1808

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

engraving

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 67 x 48.7 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered Below Image: "NAPOLEON LE GRAND"
LL: "F. Gerard pinxit anno 1805"
LR: "Aug.te Boucher Desnoyers Sculpsit"
Stamped LC: Artist's mark (Lugt 2789), [Partially Trimmed]

Identification

Standard Reference Number

IFF no. 19

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Alice G. Taft, Marianna Taft, Hope Smith and Brockholst M. Smith

Object Number

45.113.59

Type

Use & Feedback

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (French, 1779-1857), engraver
After Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard (French, 1770-1837), designer
Ramboz, printer
Napoléon le Grand (Portrait of Napoleon the Great), 1808
engraving
Plate: 67 x 48.7 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/16 inches)
Gift of Alice G. Taft, Marianna Taft, Hope Smith and Brockholst M. Smith 45.113.59

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.