Empire Style

Jacque Louis David, Portrait of Madame Récamier

Madame Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, later Princesse de Bénévent (née Noël-Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835), ca. 1808
François Gérard, called Baron Gérard

Armchair, ca. 1828
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781–1841)
Gilded mountain ash, brass

Two dresses, ca. 1810
French
White cotton

Vase, 1819
Pierre-Philippe Thomire (French, 1751–1843)
Malachite, gilt-bronze, and bronze

Fruit or flower basket, 1823
Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present); Designer: Louis-Martin Berthault (French,1770–1823); Designer: Pierre-Louis Micaud (French, active 1795–1834)
Hard-paste porcelain

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