LES PEINTURES ITALIENNES DU MUSÉE NAPOLÉON, 1810-1815 :
Édition illustrée et commentée du vol. I
Auteur(s) : Stéphane Loire
The Inventaire Napoléon (1810-1815) is the first inventory of the collections of the Musée du Louvre since its creation in 1793 as the Muséum français, which became the Musée Napoléon in 1803. The inventory includes works seized during the Revolution and Napoleon's reign, both in France and abroad, and most of it provides financial estimates. It is essential to the history of the artistic heritage that the Louvre housed during the Revolution and the First Empire.
The inventory also records the dispersal of part of this heritage to other French public institutions from 1798 onwards, as well as its partial restitution to various countries from 1814 onwards: it is a document of prime importance for the history of many museums in France and Europe.
This work is the illustrated edition of the first of the seventeen manuscript registers that make up the Napoleonic Inventory, four of which relate to the six thousand or so paintings in the inventory.
