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Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
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Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
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Antonio Zona - Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
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John Riley - Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
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King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
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Utagawa Hiroshige - Night snow in Kambara
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Jan Saenredam da Hendrick Goltzius - Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
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Giovanni Britto o Nicolò Boldrini da Tiziano Vecellio - Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
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Rosalba Carriera - Madonna
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Prayer before the storm
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Giuseppe Ceracchi - Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bertel Thorvaldsen - Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
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Pair of glasses
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Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel - Spoil
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Shelf clock
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Pair of cafes
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Martin-Guillaume Biennais - Pair of salt cellars
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Pitcher and sugar bowl
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Spring
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Luca Pacioli - About the game of chess
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Pierre Philippe Thomire - Shelf clock
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Desk service
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Shotgun
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Cup with saucer
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The man who looks at the sun
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The sneeze
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Bureau-cabinet
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Spoil
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Wedding fan
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Edouard De Beaumon - Folding fan
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Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
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Cup with saucer
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Glass
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Pauline Ducruet Augustin; Jean-Baptiste Fossin - Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
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Soup bowl
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Etagère with mirror
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Francesco Caucig - The Visitation
Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
Antonio Zona - Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
John Riley - Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Utagawa Hiroshige - Night snow in Kambara
Jan Saenredam da Hendrick Goltzius - Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
Giovanni Britto o Nicolò Boldrini da Tiziano Vecellio - Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
Rosalba Carriera - Madonna
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Prayer before the storm
Giuseppe Ceracchi - Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen - Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
Pair of glasses
Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel - Spoil
Shelf clock
Pair of cafes
Martin-Guillaume Biennais - Pair of salt cellars
Pitcher and sugar bowl
Spring
Luca Pacioli - About the game of chess
Pierre Philippe Thomire - Shelf clock
Desk service
Shotgun
Cup with saucer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The man who looks at the sun
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The sneeze
Bureau-cabinet
Spoil
Wedding fan
Edouard De Beaumon - Folding fan
Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
Cup with saucer
Glass
Pauline Ducruet Augustin; Jean-Baptiste Fossin - Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
Soup bowl
Etagère with mirror
Francesco Caucig - The Visitation

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As documented by a series of letters, the attribution to Giuseppe Ceracchi of the marble bust depicting a young Napoleon Bonaparte matured starting in the early 1960s, thanks to the research carried out personally by Count Guglielmo Coronini, to his contacts with the Amarican scholar Ulysse Desportes and compared with a print of the English engraver Henry Richter, dated 1801, where the following inscription appears: “engraved […] from the celebrated Bust by Ceracchi lately brougth from Paris and now in his Possession”. The print, of which the count had a photograph preserved together with the aforementioned correspondence, actually shows a work very similar to the Coronini bust, with the only difference that, as Guglielmo himself pointed out, the one worn by Napoleon is the crossed tunic by Marengo and of the first consulate, and not the straight one of the first campaign in Italy depicted in the Gorizia specimen, therefore datable to 1796-1797. Although Desportes had never expressed himself clearly for the attribution to Ceracchi, it was thanks to his reports that on the occasion of the monographic exhibition organized in 1989 at the Palazzo dei conservatori in Rome, Count Coronini was contacted by the curators who asked for a loan of the work. , confirming the Roman artist's autograph. The hypothesis is that the Gorizia specimen is actually the one depicted in Richter's print and that it was made immediately after the sculptor's first meeting with Bonaparte, which took place in Paris at the beginning of 1796. At the time Ceracchi was already a well-known artist and claimed that he had worked all over Europe and the United States, but that he had also made himself known for his democratic and Jacobin ideas. A supporter of the Italian Campaign, he became one of the most listened to advisers of the young general, who wanted him with him in Milan. Here Ceracchi painted a stately old-fashioned portrait for Napoleon, very distant, in spirit and setting, from the Coronini one. In fact, everyone agrees in recognizing that the Gorizia bust was certainly made from life, since, as Count Guglielmo himself underlines, "the sickly and tired expression and the irregularities and asymmetries of the face" make the image far from any idealization and any attempt at heroic emphasis.

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