BOSIO, François Joseph

Monaco, Monte-Carlo 1769 - Paris 1845

Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), roi de Westphalie de 1807 à 1813

Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia (effectively from 1807-1813)

1810-1813

Carrara marble

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 21 ¹⁄₂ in.

Acc. No.: 1971.113

Credit Line: Bequest of Julie Braun-Vogelstein, in memory of Ludwig Vogelstein, 1971

Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org, May 13, 2011

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Provenance

• Diana von Pappenheim
• Baroness Jenny von Gustedt, the illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte and Diana von Pappenheim
• Lily Braun, her daughter
• Heinrich Braun, her husband, Ministerpresident in the Weimar Republic
• Cologne, Julie Braun-Vogelstein, his second wife
• 1971, Bequest of Julie Braun-Vogelstein, in memory of Ludwig Vogelstein

Bibliography

• 1911 Masson
  Frédéric Masson, Napoléon et sa famille, Paris, 1911, vol. VI, p. 18
• [mid-20's] Braun
  Lily Braun, Im Schatten der Titanen. Erinnerungen an Baronin Jenny von Gustedt, Berlin-Grunewald, n.d., repr. opposite p. 32 (this copy)
• 1938 Fleuriot de Langle
  Paul Fleuriot de Langle, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Bibliothèque Paul Marmottan, Guide analytique, 1938, no. 60 (another copy)
• 1964 Hubert
  Gérard Hubert, Les sculpteurs italiens en France sous la Révolution, l'Empire et la Restauration, 1790-1830, Paris, 1964, p. 89, fig. 48 (the statue of Jérôme at Ajaccio, from which the busts derive)
• 1964 Hubert
  Gérard Hubert, La sculpture dans l'Italie napoléonienne, Paris, 1964, p. 354 (mentions several examples of bust of Jérôme and consort: Versailles, fig. 181, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Bibliothèque Marmottan, Ajaccio)

Exhibitions

• 1978 New York
  The Arts under Napoleon, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6 April-30 July 1978, no. 42, fig. 20

Related works

• Metropolitan Museum of Art cardboard file:
  A French model probably executed in Italy.
  Another example in the sculpture collection of the Museum at Berlin-Dahlem.
  Acording to Masson (see Bibliography), Jérôme ordered from the Bank of Elisa Bacciocchi, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (which controlled the quarries at Carrara) 54 examples of the bust of himself, 12 of his queen, 26 of his parents, 34 statues after the antique, etc.

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