Alexandre Marie COLIN (1798-1875) Portrait of His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III in General's Uniform Oil on canvas (Original canvas) Signed 'A.Colin.' lower left Canvas from Maison Vallée 109 × 78 cm Wooden frame richly carved with laurel tori and gilded, the pediment with the imperial coat of arms Provenance : - Former collection of Andrzej Stanislaw Pawlikowski ; - Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1996, lot 75 ; - Christopher Forbes Collection; - His sale, Fontainebleau, 6 March 2016, lot 67 Exhibitions : - Napoleon III: The Other Napoleon and His Empire, The Forbes Galleries, New York, December 2, 2002-April 10, 2003 ; - Nassau County Museum of art, Napoléon & Eugénie, Opulence and Splendor of French's Second Empire, 7 June - 7 September 2009 ; - NAPOLEON WHO?! Prince, Prisoner, President, Emperor: Louis Napoleon (1808-1873), The Forbes Galleries, New York, May 15 - November 14, 2014. Bibliography : - Cynthia Frank, Empire Envy, House & Garden, September 1999, p. 290-291 - Stuart Ferguson, The Gallery: One Man's Imperial Obsession, The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2003 - Christopher Forbes, Global Collectors: Christopher Forbes, Paris: Editions Phebus, 2008, p.162-165. Portrait of the emperor Napoleon III, oil on canvas, signed, by Alexandre Marie Colin Alexandre Marie COLIN (1798-1875)