Keywords: Adolphe Yvon - Portrait of Napoleon III - Walters 3795.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748331 Creator Adolphe Yvon en Yvon served as the principal battle-painter of France's Second Empire 1852-70 executing a number of monumental canvases for the palace at Versailles The French emperor is shown in his prime two years before the defeat of his forces in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871 Yvon sirvió como el principal pintor de batalla del Segundo Imperio Francés 1852-1870 y como tal ejecutó un número de lienzos monumentales para el palacio de Versalles El emperador francés es mostrado en su cúspide dos años antes de la derrota de sus tropas en la guerra franco-prusiana 1870-1871 1868 oil on canvas cm 55 7 46 7 ; Framed cm 78 74 70 17 accession number 37 95 597 S P Avery date and mode of acquisition unknown William T Walters city Baltimore according to inscription by Henry Walters in 1884 catalogue Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1876 AD YVON / 1868 signature/date ~ Painted in the spandrels 96 number ~ 791 number ~ Nineteenth Century French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections High Museum of Art Atlanta; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh 1983 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Adolphe Yvon 1868 paintings Three-quarter view portraits of men facing left Portrait paintings of Napoleon III of France French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Médaille militaire Médaille commémorative de la campagne d'Italie de 1859 1860s paintings from France |