Description: FRAMED PORTRAIT OF NAPOLÉON FRANÇOIS JOSEPH CHARLES BONAPARTE (1811-1832). BY ERDMANN JULIUS DIETRICH (1808-1874) NAPOLEON II WAS THE SON OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON I AND EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE, DAUGHTER OF EMPEROR FRANCIS I OF AUSTRIA. AS NAPOLEON’S HEIR, HE WAS STYLED KING OF ROME FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS FATHER’S ABDICATION IN 1814. AS NAPOLEON II, HE WAS DISPUTED EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH FOR A FEW WEEKS IN 1815. AFTERWARD, HE LIVED IN VIENNA, WHERE HE WAS KNOWN AS FRANZ (THE GERMAN VERSION OF HIS SECOND NAME), DUKE OF REICHSTADT. HE PLAYED NO POLITICAL ROLE IN AUSTRIA, BUT STARTED HIS MILITARY TRAINING AT 10 YEARS OF AGE, AND JOINED THE AUSTRIAN ARMY AT 12. IN 1831 HE WAS GIVEN COMMAND OF A BATTALION, BUT BECAME ILL AND COULDN'T SERVE. HE DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS AT THE AGE OF 21. HE WAS POSTHUMOUSLY GIVEN THE NICKNAME L'AIGLON ("THE EAGLET"). HIS COUSIN, LOUIS BONAPARTE, WAS TO BECOME NAPOLEON III IN 1852. IN THIS PORTRAIT, AS DUKE OF REICHSTADT, HE IS WEARING AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER OF HUSSARS UNIFORM, AND MEDALS OF THE NAPOLEONIC FIRST EMPIRE, OF FRANCE (THE GRAND EAGLE OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR), THE KINGDOM OF ITALY (ORDER OF THE IRON CROWN), AND THE DUCHY OF PARMA, AS PRINCE OF PARMA (SACRED MILITARY CONSTANTINIAN ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE). THE ARTIST ERDMANN JULIUS DIETRICH (1808-1874), WAS A PAINTER, AND CURATOR OF THE LINDENAU COLLECTIONS AT THE POHLHOF. FROM 1828, DIETRICH LEARNED THE BASICS OF PORTRAIT ART FROM PAINTER LUDWIG DOELL, AND LATER TRAINED WITH JOSEF GRASSI. BERNHARD AUGUST VON LINDENAU, SAXON POLITICIAN AND ART COLLECTOR, ENABLED HIM TO GO ON A STUDY TRIP TO ITALY IN 1838/39, AND GAVE HIM NUMEROUS COPYING ASSIGNMENTS. AFTER HIS RETURN TO ALTENBURG IN GERMANY, DIETRICH BECAME A SOUGHT-AFTER PORTRAIT PAINTER. HE REGULARLY COPIED FOR LINDENAU, WHO HONORED HIS COMMITMENT TO THE MUSEUM IN 1846/47 BY APPOINTING HIM CURATOR.
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