Place Vendome: Vendome Column (Paris, France) : General view, looking northwest, depicting rue de la Paix in background
- Creator:
- Gondoin, Jacques, 1737-1818
Lepère, Jean-Baptiste, 1761-1844 - Published/Created:
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
1806-1811 - Physical Description:
- 143 ft (height) x 13 ft (diameter)
- Date Depicted:
- 1993
1800 AD - 1849 AD - Materials:
- bronze
- Notes:
- Gondoin together with Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761-1844), built the Vendôme Column (1806-1811), Paris, with its spiral reliefs on bronze plaques after cartoons by Pierre Nolasque Bergeret. Napoleon commissioned the original column, modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its veneer of 425 spiraling bas-relief bronze plates were made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, (according to his propaganda). The plates were executed by a team of sculptors including Bosio and Rude. The column was topped with a statue of Napoleon, destroyed, and then later replaced. The entire column was pulled down in 1871 and then restored and re-erected 1873.
- Variant Titles:
- Colonne Vendôme
- Topics:
- Architecture -- France -- 17th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Nineteenth century
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-HMJ-PV-B3
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- allegory; architecture; military or war; portrait; rulers and leaders; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Nineteenth century built works; monuments; memorial columns; visual works; sculpture (visual work); visual wor
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
1993 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10052926
- PID:
- digcoll:1865813