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Crowd in Front of the Tuileries Palace During the Wedding of Napoleon to Marie-Louise of Austria

ca. 1810
Not on view
This drawing was a design for plate nine in the 1810 book, Description des cérémonies et des fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le mariage de S.M. l'Empereur Napoléon avec S.A.I. Madame l'Archiduchesse Marie-Louise d'Autriche par Charles Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine (see: 65.602.3). The book details the marriage ceremony of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria, and shows the emperor and empress on the great balcony of the Tuileries. The unfinished image is in the reverse of the print and differs in certain details from the plate engraved by Charles Normand (1765-1840) and Louis Pauquet (1759-after 1822).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Crowd in Front of the Tuileries Palace During the Wedding of Napoleon to Marie-Louise of Austria
  • Artist: Charles Percier (French, Paris 1764–1838 Paris)
  • Artist: Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, Pontoise 1762–1853 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1810
  • Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
  • Dimensions: 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (41.6 x 30.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
  • Object Number: 1971.513.25
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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