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2 unusual facts about Pierre Cartellier


Pierre Cartellier

Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.

La Pudeur ("Modesty"); exhibited at the Salon of 1801, in plaster, when it won a first prize, and of 1808, in marble, which was purchsased for the gallery at Malmaison.



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