Finial: Eagle, Staff, Flag and Cravat: Insignia of the First Regiment of Grenadiers of Foot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard

French1813/1814

Missing. Historically located in the Short Gallery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

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Title: Finial: Eagle, Staff, Flag and Cravat: Insignia of the First Regiment of Grenadiers of Foot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard
Creator: French
Date Created: 1813/1814
Physical Dimensions: h25.4cm
Provenance: Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Sypher & Co., New York on 20 October 1880 for $300 with the standard of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon
Rights: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
External Link: More on the 1990 theft of this work from the Gardner Museum
Medium: Gilded bronze

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