PRECIOUS MEMORABILIA OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON IER ASSEMBLED BY PIERRE-ANTOINE LABOUCHÈRE (1807-1873). These relics are mounted and glued on a red velvet background around an oval miniature portrait of Napoleon I, signed by Mansion (1785-1834). The Emperor is depicted in a full-length bust, wearing the uniform of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde, the Legion of Honour and the Iron Crown, encircled in gilded brass. The whole is preserved under glass in a Louis-Philipe period gilded wooden frame surmounted by an imperial eagle. (missing and damaged). On the back is a handwritten list of objects collected by Labouchère: Frame with eagle: H. 39.5 x W. 28 cm. Composition with view: H. 19 x W. 13 cm. Miniature: H. 10.5 x W. 8.5 cm. "1. 20 franc coin - Italy delivered at Marengo. 2. Small piece of red velvet from which Notre-Dame was draped on Day of the Coronation of Emperor Napoleon - December 1804. 3. Two small pieces of the two wooden coffins in which the remains of the Emperor were buried at St Helena from 1821 to 1840. 4. Pieces of cypress and geranium flower that I picked myself from the Emperor's tomb at St Helena, on my return from China on 10 May 1833. 5. Napoleon Bonaparte's signature as General. He then signed Buonaparte. 6. Hair curls of the Emperor & the King of Rome. Given to me by Madame Horace Vernet who got them directly from Madame de Montesquiou. 7. The figure with the crown on one of the Emperor's shirts was given to me with a large piece by King Jerome in Florence, in June 1837. 8. The Crosses usually worn by the Emperor: that of the Legion of Honour / The Iron Crown / The Reunion of Holland / Naples under Murat. Paris, 2nd December 1851. P. A. Labouchère". Two gold coins from the First Empire period complete these souvenirs. souvenirs, one commemorating the marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise in 1810, the other the birth of the King of Rome in 1811; the reduced decorations, also from the First Empire period, are presented with their ribbons (small chips in the enamel). HISTORICAL Pierre-Antoine LABOUCHÈRE (Nantes, 1807-Paris, 1873). Pierre Antoine Labouchère was a painter, watercolourist, lithographer, art dealer and art collector, whose family was closely linked to the figure of the Emperor Napoleon. Labouchère belonged to a Huguenot family that emigrated to Holland at the beginning of the eighteenth century, part of which became associated with the bank Hope & Co. the Hope & Co bank in Amsterdam. His father, Antoine-Marie Labouchère (1775-1829), was a shipowner from Nantes, and for a time the city's consul, and his son was destined for a career in trade. At the age of 20, Pierre-Antoine was sent to the United States by the bank's London office, where he later became a senior partner. In 1832, he travelled to China as a sub-secretary on a ship from Nantes owned by his brother Jean-Charles (1805-1886). It was on his return from this trip that he went to St Helena (see above). After a stint as a banker with Hope, he decided in 1836, he decided to devote himself to painting and spent a year studying in Italy, before studying with Paul Delaroche. He travelled extensively in England, Germany and Africa, taking He travelled extensively in England, Germany and Africa, drawing the subjects of several paintings from these countries. Faithful to the Protestant faith, he focused his work on bearing witness the history of the Reformation, and in particular of Luther. In May 1839, he married Nathalie Mallet (1813-1884), daughter of Émilie daughter of Émilie Oberkampf, a pioneer of nursery schools in France to a family of bankers and industrialists. They had two children, Alfred (1840-1875) and Jeanne-Émilie (1842-1901). They did not They did not settle in Paris until 1850. He collected books and autographs. The year before his death in 1873, he bequeathed all his books to the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, of which he was an active member, and shared his collection of autographs between the Société and the Nantes municipal library. He also donated his coin collection to the City of Nantes, which named one of its streets after him. He died on 28 March 1873 in Paris, where he is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. André Léon Larue, known as MANSION (Nancy, 1785 - Paris, 1834) Mansion was born at the end of the 18th century into a family of cabinet-makers from Lorraine. His father gave him his first art lessons, followed by the miniaturist Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1808 to 1834 and also worked for the Manufacture de Sèvres as a lithographer and oil and enamel painter. He stayed in London several times and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 and 1831. There he married the miniaturist Marie Bryan. In 1822, he published "Lettres sur la miniature" in French and English. He became famous for painting the Emperor Napoleon I, the Empress Marie-Louise, the Duke of Bordeaux, the Count and Countess Esterhazy and members of the English and Russian aristocracy. and Russian aristocracy. Schidlof says of him: "Mansion is one of the best French French miniaturists of the 19th century". The specialist also also points out that Mansion's miniature portraits were already were already a huge success at the time, as evidenced by the fact that they were copiously reproduced. His works are held in the most important museums and private collections.