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View Within This Collection - Napoleon Chairs l Napoleon II l Original Needlepoint
Samantha Taylor Needlepoint - Original Napoleon II Needlepoint Chair Seat Cover - Seen on Both Sides - A Classical Needlepoint from the French Empire Style
The front of the original Napoleon chair seat shows the faded coloring that we chose to reproduce for its beauty - inheriting 200 years of existence and use. There are so many pieces of Museum Quality Needlepoint rapidly disappearing in Europe - as the Art Collectors know.
Available for Online Purchase as a Needlepoint Kit or as a Needlepoint Canvas
Napoleon II Needlepoint
Napoleon II - 19 inches square (design) - canvas size 27 inches square - 12 mesh - Copyright 1999 Jan Voich
The original colors were the bold colors typical of the Napoleon II era. To reproduce this needlepoint chair cover - we first charted the original - by hand counting and - re-counting each needlepoint stitch meticulously.
Many days were spent selecting the nineteen colors which would later be used to stitch the new needlepoint reproduction. Working off of the chart - mistakes were made - removed - re-stitched and the reproduction was complete after three months of complete dedication. The finished Needlepoint Kit and Canvas as a completed product required many more weeks and months - until the colors of canvas and the chart were faithful to this original needlepoint.
We are planning to recreate this design in different background colors very soon.
These
photographs of Napoleon II were sent to us from a customer ( and
now - *Our Stitching Friend - from Minneapolis* ) - who chose a pillow
finishing.
Others have made this chair cover into fire screens.
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 days
NAPOLEON II NEEDLEPOINT KIT - STNAP ..... $225
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The Empire Style
The Empire style was derived from classical motifs brought back into style at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Its name is taken from the French Empire of Napoleon I - whose court adopted classical designs discovered in the archaeological excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum early in the nineteenth century. The ancient furniture forms of the classical Greeks and Romans - discovered in these ruins - gained new popularity during the Empire period.
Typical Empire Motifs include the acanthus leaf ( leaf of a Mediterranean shrub ) - anthemion ( stylized honeysuckle ) - animal-paw feet - cornucopia ( horn of plenty ) - dolphin - eagle - lyre and rosette. For ornamentation - gilt stenciling was popular as was the use of ormolu ( a type of brass made to imitate gold ).
Napoleon II
Napoleon II (1811-1832) - carried the titled - Duke of Reichstadt - and son of Emperor Napoleon I of France and his second wife - Marie Louise of Austria. Napoleon I had long hoped for a son to inherit his empire - thus awarding his newborn boy the title - King of Rome.
When overthrown in 1814 - Napoleon I gave up the throne in favor of this young son - however - the French Senate would not recognize Napoleon II as emperor - - and Louis XVIII - a member of the Bourbon royal family - became king of France that year.
Marie Louise then took her son to live at the court of her father - Emperor Francis I of Austria.
Even after Napoleon I was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 - he again proclaimed his son emperor of France - however - the French again refused to give the young boy the throne - and he remained in Austria. His mother*s family gave him the title of Duke of Reichstadt in 1818. Napoleon II was never strong - and he grew into a tall - slender youth. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 21 and was buried in the Habsburg ( or Hapsburg ) family*s church tomb in Vienna.
In 1940 - Adolph Hitler - dictator of Germany - had the body placed near that of Napoleon I in the Eglise du Dome ( Church of the Dome ) at the Hotel des Invalides ( Home for Disabled Soldiers ) in Paris. Napoleon II was born in Paris.
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