Before NAPOLEON, PAOLI: the portrait of the founder of the Corsican Republic at auction in Fontainebleau on 21 June (To be auctioned
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As part of the sale "L'Empire à Fontainebleau", Osenat will present the Portrait of Pascal Paoli, Full-Length, an oil on canvas painted around 1768 by Henry Benbridge (1743-1812).
This painting, whose impressive gilded wood frame is surmounted by a Scottish coat of arms, comes from the former collections of James Boswell, the celebrated Scottish writer, and John D. Rockefeller III, great patron of the arts.