The "Dessins Denon": reframing art spoliation and the spoliator in Napoleonic France

Between 1805 and 1813, the Musée du Louvre’s director, Dominique-Vivant Denon, crisscrossed Europe in the company of draftsmen to pursue a print project designed to glorify Napoleon’s military conquests. The planned recueil (edited series of original prints) was never engraved, and it exists today a...

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1. Verfasser: Karrels, Nancy Caron (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:Between 1805 and 1813, the Musée du Louvre’s director, Dominique-Vivant Denon, crisscrossed Europe in the company of draftsmen to pursue a print project designed to glorify Napoleon’s military conquests. The planned recueil (edited series of original prints) was never engraved, and it exists today as a dispersed collection of drawings of battlefields, triumphal entries, and landscapes. Curiously, the so-called Dessins Denon also contain a number of little-known images that recount the French confiscation of European art treasures and Denon’s active involvement in it. This study suggests that by anchoring his highly mediated vision of art theft in the broader context of the Napoleonic victories, Denon sought to memorialize his role as chief of the "cultural conquests" and to burnish this legacy by transforming the traditional image of wartime art looting into a respectable and professional post-Enlightenment pursuit, as worthy of remembrance as France’s storied Italian campaigns and the victory at Austerlitz
Beschreibung:17 Illustrationen
ISSN:1543-1002
DOI:10.29411/ncaw.2023.22.2.4

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