Pair of Platters, from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese
Martin-Guillaume Biennais (Paris, France)
c. 1794-1819
- Medium
- Gilded silver
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 66 cm (26 in.)
- Culture
- Paris
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles V. Hickox
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
These platters for the dining table are part of a vast service made for Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister Pauline on the occasion of her marriage to the Roman nobleman Camillo Borghese, Sixth Prince of Sulmona.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
