Napoleon Bonaparte's Death Mask with a Laurel Wreath, the Order of the Legion of Honor and a Sword, Luigi Calamatta, 1801-1868, 1834, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, In an allegorical portrait, the Emperor Napoleon (1769-1821) is here presented as ruler of the world. Luigi Calamatta has had the death mask, a plaster mask cast on the head of the dead Napoleon, as his model. Before the death mask lie a rapier and the order of the Legion of Honour, established by Napoleon himself in 1802. The death mask is adorned with a laurel wreath. Like the eagle in the lower corner of the frame

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