Bronze Of The Emperor

Bronze with brown patina on a white marble base, after Charles Emile Seurre.
Napoleon is represented, full-length, in the uniform of Colonel of the mounted hunters of the Guard, covered with his coat and hat.
His left hand is slipped into his waistcoat. He holds his telescope in his right hand.
This bronze is a reduction of the statue located above the Saint-Louis church in the courtyard of honor of the Hôtel des Invalides.
Good condition.
Charles Emile Seurre: born in Paris on February 22, 1798 and died in the same city on January 10, 1858, is a French sculptor known for his statues from the series of illustrious men. In 1833, he made a bronze statue of the Emperor. Napoleon is represented full-length, in a frock coat. It was placed at the top of the Vendôme column between 1833 and 1863, then transferred to the Courbevoie crossroads from 1863 to 1871. After four months in the Seine at the level of the Neuilly bridge, where it had been thrown at the fall of the Second Empire, it was stored at the State marble depot, then, in 1911, installed at the Invalides.