Empire Style - Gallery

Gallery

  • Napoléon's throne

  • Enclosed chair (bergère) and open arm chair (fauteuil) by Pierre-Antoine Bellangé (1758-1827), c. 1815

  • The apartment of empress Joséphine in the Château de Malmaison

  • Napoléon's room at Palace of Fontainebleau

  • French Empire mantel clock

  • Service of Sèvres porcelain given by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia in 1807, on display in the Dancing Hall of Kuskovo Palace

  • Empire silhouette of Stéphanie de Beauharnais

  • North facade of the Palais Bourbon, added in 1806-1808, by architect Bernard Poyet

  • Empire style taborets in the Palace of Fontainebleau

  • Tripod table in Empire Style

  • Detail of a Empire room

  • Carlo Franzoni's 1810 sculptural clock, the Car of History depicting Clio, muse of history. U.S. Capitol.

  • Vendôme Column, Paris

  • The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris

  • Palais Brongniart (1806-1825) in Paris, built by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart

  • Bas-relief of Napoleon in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives

  • Legion of Honour, Empire decoration established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802

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