Napoleon, Bronze Bust
This bust of Napoleon is a later copy after the French sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810). Chaudet worked in a Neoclassical style and the 'herm' form of this bust, with the shoulders cut off and straight sides, imitates that of Roman imperial portraits.
Chaudet made the original plaster model for the portrait in 1799. The final marble version of 1804 was the preferred image of Napoleon himself, who had recently been created Emperor of the French, and it became the official portrait, widely-reproduced. No less than 1,200 marble versions of this portrait were carved by the workshops between 1807 and 1809. The majority were destroyed when the Bourbon monarchy was restored in 1814.
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