Description
History and Inspiration
Robert creates a practical buffet, hand curved, style Louis XV with cut rounded doors – Lower front part sculptured with different designs and a shell which is Robert’s signature on all his realizations of Louis XV.
Hugues, amongst his numerous passions, loves history and particularly Napoleon’s epic part of the French Revolution.
Hugues has painted with great talent, in transparency, some fresco from this epic time.
The top of the buffet is an imitation of jade but entirely made in paint transparency.
Details on Handcraft & Sculpture
Rounded doors cut in the wood. Top is made with round angles. Sides have waved panels inserted in the structure.
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a) Face – right door: 1st Consul crossing the Grand St Bernard’s Pass. b) Face – left door : Napoléon writing the «civil code». c) Face – center : God of War. d) Side right: Joséphine. e) Side left : Empress Marie Louise, inspired by Robert Lefebvre’s painting in 1812. f) Top : Dream of Napoléon –Lady representing France who is being stabbed. Napoléon Bonaparte is in Egypt and he has this dream. Allegory on the situation in France, before his return from Egypt. Ref-(J.P.Franque – 1810)
