Item description
A rare bronze of Napoleon III on horseback by Charles Francis Fuller British 1830 – 1875.
- Bronze, with a dark brown patina.
- Size 57cm x 43.5cm
- 24” x 17”
- Base 19.5cm x 44cm
- 7.6” x 17”
Fuller is not recorded as having treated French subjects, which makes the present highly chased and finished group of Louis-Napoleon of particular interest. Dated 1856, it presumably commemorates an event at the end of the Crimean War, when France and Britain were allies. Napoleon III was at the height of his power, just four years after he had established the Second Empire with himself as Emperor (1852). Fuller moved to Rome and exhibited at the RA regularly between 1859 and 1875. In 1874 he completed the monument to Rajaram Cuttraputti, Maharajah of Kolepoor, who had died in Florence in 1870 (Piazza Ognissanti).
