Napoleon on St Helena
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860), c. 1826-1827
oil on canvas, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0109
- Dimensions
- 22.5 cm x 28 cm, 39 cm x 44.5 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Goupil & Cie, Paris; acquired by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague, in or before September 1881; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 176
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 133
