The brooch of Empress Eugénie has entered the collections of the famous Louvre Museum.
It should be noted that this exceptional jewel comes from the jewels of the French Crown.
1853
Pearls, Diamonds and Gold.
François Kramer
This Brooch of Empress Eugénie is made of pearls and diamonds. It is part of a set of four brooches (two shoulder brooches and two corsage brooches) made by the jeweler François Kramer in 1853.
A few months after his marriage to Eugénie de Montijo, Napoleon III ordered a new set of pearls and diamonds. Thus, starting from a set executed by François-Régnault Nitot for Empress Marie-Louise (with pearls and diamonds from the Crown), the new set was created.
Winterhalter
Furthermore, he shares the command with Alexandre-Gabriel Lemonnier, a jeweler of the Crown, and François Kramer, former manager of Fossin and a trusted jeweler of Empress Eugénie. It should be noted that Lemonnier created the diadem (offered to the Louvre Museum by the Empress Eugénie). Society of Friends of the Louvre in 1992), a crown and a brooch from the front of a corsage. François Kramer creates four brooches of the same design but of decreasing size. Finally, in 1887, during the sale of the Crown’s diamonds, these four brooches were sold.
Alexandre-Gabriel Lemonnier
It must be said that it is thanks to Louvre Museum and to Society of Friends of the Louvre, That the treasure of the Crown of France revived and grew. This Historical legacy The Richelieu wing can be admired near the apartments of Napoleon III.
Photos credit Musée du Louvre/Society of Friends of the Louvre
