US Exhibit Highlights Cherubs and Other French Delights
When Napoleon’s elder brother Joseph Bonaparte was forced into exile, he brought to the United States a collection of lavish rococo and neoclassical paintings that earned enduring American fascination. Among the works Bonaparte left behind when he returned to France in 1839 was Noel Nicolas Coypel’s “The Abduction of Europa” (1726-1727), a period indulgence, complete … Read more