Re: Empress Joséphine - sapphires and emeralds: a question? Archived Message
Posted by Torkel  on April 16, 2012, 5:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Empress Joséphine - sapphires and emeralds: a question?"
Isn´t this the emerald parure that was inherited by Eugene de Beauharnais, then by his son who married a Russian Grand Duchess.
Their children were neutralized Russian nobles, and I seem to remember having read that they kept this parure until the revolution, which would fit the time of the auction mentioned in Monica´s post.
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: Yes, you’re correct - the originally posted
: picture is a rather bad version of the
: famous portrait by Francois Gérard, in the
: original you can see that Empress Joséphine
: is wearing an emerald and pearl parure (see
: the enlargement below).
: I'd love to know as well where this
: particular parure ended up.
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: As for Joséphine's sapphires, they are
: unquestionably in the Louvre (in their
: frequently altered form).
: There is only a speculative possibility that
: some pieces might have been used by Nitot in
: 1806 to create Napoléon’s wedding gift to
: Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of
: Leuchtenberg, and Princess Augusta of
: Bavaria: The Leuchtenberg sapphire parure
: which is now in the Bernadotte collection.
: The history of Joséphine’s sapphires is
: quite complex, Ursula’s site offers a good
: overview as usual:
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: http://www.royal-magazin.de/french/saphire-diadem-frankreich-france.htm
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: (Btw., Joye: Again a plea to you if you
: could perhaps make your post’s subject
: matters a bit clearer, if possible...?)
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: I am quite sure the stones are emeralds.
: Aparantly the set existed until 1920 when it
: was sold. Louvre tried to interveen but to
: no avail. If this story is true, I am sure
: there must be something written about it in
: French news papers at the time...
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: Empress Josephine's sapphires.
: Might they be the same sapphires that are in
: the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Tiara, that her
: granddaughter Queen Josephire brought into
: the Swedish Royal Family jewels?
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