Charlotte-Napoléone BONAPARTE (Paris, 31... - Lot 232 - Osenat

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Charlotte-Napoléone BONAPARTE (Paris, 31... - Lot 232 - Osenat
Charlotte-Napoléone BONAPARTE (Paris, 31 October 1802 - Sarzana (Italy), 3 March 1839) "Near the Passaic Falls in Patterson" Lavis, signed and located at the bottom left and in the centre, on embossed paper. 22.5 x 26 cm (with frame) Coaster, gilded frame from the Empire period Charlotte-Napoleone Bonaparte is a princess of the French Empire, the youngest daughter of Joseph Bonaparte and Julie Clary. She had a sister, Zenaide, one year her senior. His maternal aunt Désirée Clary was the wife of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte who became Crown Prince (1811) and King of Sweden (1818). Niece of Napoleon I, she is an imperial princess endowed with the predicate of imperial highness (1804). Napoleon I having granted the Spanish crown to Charlotte's father, the girl was an infanta from Spain from 1808 to 1813, when her father was driven out of Spain by English troops and popular resistance. A talented artist and student of Jacques-Louis David during his stay in Brussels, Charlotte created a series of albums over the course of his life in which watercolours and other drawings follow one another, capturing the landscapes that this traveller in exile went through after the fall of the Empire. On July 23, 1826, she married Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, her first cousin (son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais). Affiliated with the Italian Charcoal Industry, the young man died in 1831 in hiding, either fighting the papal and Austrian armies or from a measles epidemic. Their union had remained sterile. After her husband's death, she was given several adventures. Pregnant, in 1838, she decided to return to France but died in childbirth on the way back to Sarzana, on the Ligurian coast. His tomb is located in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, next to that of Julie Clary Bonaparte, his mother
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