Decoration Executed for the Birthday of His Majesty the King of Westphalia
Medium
Pen and black ink and watercolor with graphite; heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32 × 42.3 cm · secondary support: 44 × 53.2 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2008.341
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About this artwork
A scenic designer for the Paris Opera, Cicéri created this decoration for a performance celebrating the birthday of Emperor Napoleon’s brother, Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), King of Westphalia, a vassal state of territories taken from Prussia and its allies. Antoine-André Bruguière, named in the inscription as the commissioner of the decoration, was Westphalia’s secretary of the ministry of war and the superintendent of theaters in Kassel, the state’s capital city. The title of the special perfo...