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Bust of Empress Josephine
About the Artwork
This bust of the Empress Josephine was sculpted in Milan in 1805 when she accompanied Napoleon to that city for his coronation as the King of Italy.
Inscriptions
inscribed on front of base in ligature: "chinard a milan"; inscribed on back of base in ligature: "chinard/de/l'institut m(al?)/membre de plusiere [sp]/ academies/milan-an l (3?)"
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joseph Chinard (French, 1756–1825)
- Date
- 1805
- Medium
- terracotta
- Dimensions
- Overall: 29.6 x 17 x 11 cm (11 5/8 x 6 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Ethlyne J. Seligman
- Accession no.
- 1994.125
Provenance
Comte Penha Longa (Paris, France); Possibly sold, Penha Longa sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 2, 1911, to André J. Seligman Possibly André J. Seligman (Paris, France), possibly by inheritance to his son and daughter-in-law Germain and Ethlyne J. Seligman. Possibly Germain and Ethlyne J. Seligman, upon his death, by inheritance to Ethlyne J. Seligman. Ethlyne J. Seligman, upon her death, held in trust by the estate. Estate of Ethlyne J. Seligman, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010835
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