Napoleon Bonaparte, 19th-century Bronze, 98 Cm, Signed: Emile Guillemin

Period: 19th century, bronze in perfect condition, lost-wax casting

Signed: Signed in the bronze on the pedestal. , artist listed and priced,

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The artwork: Napoleon Bonaparte

Dimensions: Height: 98 cm, Width: 26 cm, Depth: 26 cm, Weight: 38 kg

Biography:

Emile GUILLEMIN 1841 / 1907

Émile Coriolan Guillemin, born on October 16, 1841, in Paris, where he died on December 26, 1907, was a French sculptor.

Born on October 16, 1841, in Paris, Émile Guillemin studied under his father, Émile Marie Auguste Guillemin, and under Jules Salmson.

He traveled throughout North Africa and the Mediterranean region, where he documented the anthropological characteristics of various local cultures. His art was part of the Orientalist movement.

He made a name for himself as a sculptor of busts, statues, and group sculptures. He made his debut at the 1870 Salon with two plaster casts of Roman gladiators, Retaire and Mirmillon, bronze casts of which were acquired by the French government for the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He continued to exhibit at the Salon until the late 1890s, notably submitting a series of bronze busts of Oriental women. His depictions of Indian falconers, young Turkish women, and Japanese courtesans firmly established his reputation as an Orientalist sculptor as early as the mid-1870s. Guillemin collaborated with major art publishing houses such as Barbedienne and Christofle.

Émile-Coriolan Guillemin died in Paris on December 26, 1907.

In 2008, his pair of bronze busts from 1884—*Kabyle Woman from Algeria* and *Janissary of Sultan Mahmoud II*—sold for $1,202,500, excluding auction fees, at Sotheby’s in New York.

Works in Museums:

Canada:

Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts: Eliézer and Rebecca.

United States:

Ocala, Appleton Museum of Art: Arab Horseman, c. 1900, bronze, in collaboration with Alfred Barye.

Stanford, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts: Napoleon, bronze statuette.

Greenville, Bob Jones University: Rebecca Giving Water to Abraham’s Servant, c. 1870–1895, bronze group.

France:

Paris:

Louvre Museum: Pair of Moorish Figures (attributed), bronze statues; Arabian Horse.

Musée d’Orsay: Aurora, 1867, gilded bronze plaque adorning the base of a cabinet by Charles-Guillaume Diehl and Jean Brandely.

Netherlands:

Amsterdam:

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: collection of Charles-Guillaume Diehl and Jean Brandely[10]

Source: Bénézit and *Les Bronzes du XIX°*, Pierre Kjellberg, Editions de l’amateur.

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Bronze on view at our gallery in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France) on weekends.

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