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Article: Carpeaux's vision for Napoleon III: mourning the death of an emperor.
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- November 1, 2003
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In January 1873, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux received an urgent telegram dispatched from England by the Prince Imperial Louis-Napoleon, the only son of Napoleon III and Eugenie, the ex-emperor and ex-empress of France. Louis asked Carpeaux to return to England from Paris immediately to complete the bust of Napoleon he had begun the previous year. (1) Louis-Napoleon reported that his father, who had been undergoing repeated surgery for kidney stones, appeared close to death. In the event, Carpeaux arrived only in time to execute postmortem drawings of Napoleon III, who had been among the artist's most important patrons, and then attended and sketched the funeral service. The ...
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