The Emperor in Private: Napoleon I – husband, father, lover
From 23 March 2019 to 23 June 2019, the Musée de la ville at La Roche-sur-Yon hosted an exhibition entitled Dans l’intimité d’un empereur: Napoléon Ier, l’époux, le père, l’amant [The Emperor in Private: Napoleon I – husband, father, lover] to which the Fondation Napoléon loaned ten items.
Fondation Napoléon loans
- Wooden-framed wax representation of the baptism of the Roi de Rome
- Watercolour drawing of Hôtel Bonaparte on the Rue Chantereine (later Rue de la Victoire)
- Drawing of the Arrival of Marie-Louise at Compiègne
- Bust of the Prince Imperial
- Bust of the Roi de Rome as a child
- Print of Napoleon and his nephews
- Print “Le passé, le présent et l’avenir” (The Past the Present, the Future)
- The Prince Imperial and his dog Nero
- Plate from the Emperor’s private service « The Prefecture in Napoléon (today the town of La Roche-sur-Yon) »
- Photograph of the Prince Imperial on his pony, posing for a photographer
A catalogue of the exhibition was published with the support of the Fondation Napoléon.
Loan institutions
- Ajaccio, Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Angers, Musées d’Angers
- Compiègne, Musée National du Palais de Compiègne
- Dunkerque, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Fontainebleau, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau
- La Roche-sur-Yon, the Préfecture de la Vendée
- La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération, Médiathèques
- Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Montreuil, Musée de l’Histoire Vivante
- Moulins, Musée départemental Anne-de-Beaujeu
- Nice, Musée Masséna
- Paris, Fondation Napoléon
- Paris, Fondation Dosne-Bibliothèque Thiers
- Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet
- Paris, Musée de l’Armée
- Paris, Musée des Archives nationales
- Rueil-Malmaison, Musée National des Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau
- Strasbourg, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Palais Rohan
- Versailles, Musée Lambinet
- Private Collections:
Geneva (Switzerland), the collection of the Comte and Comtesse Charles-André Colonna-Walewski
And all the other private collectors who prefer to remain anonymous.
Place: Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, 85000
Dates: 23 March 2019 – 23 June 2019
Commissariat: Hélène Jagot, Director of the Musée de la Ville at La Roche-sur-Yon; Sarah Chanteux, Chargée for the collections at the Musée de la Ville at La Roche-sur-Yon
Scenography: Pascal Esnard with Anne Cariou, Mickaël Lambert and Vanessa Petit; Anne-Lise Broyer
Number of visitors: 6,000
