The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1606

Sculpture from the base of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, Paris

Object details

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Owner: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Object owner number: MS. WHF Talbot photogr. 1

Collection: Archive Of William Henry Fox Talbot And The Talbot Family

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1606

Sculpture from the base of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, Paris

Location: Paris

The sculpture is known as, Le Triomphe de 1810.  It is by the French Neoclassical sculptor, Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787 - 1843) and celebrates the Treaty of Schönbrunn.  It features Napoléon Bonaparte, crowned by the goddess of Victory.