- 7 December 2016
- 6:00 – 8:00 pm
- Lecture Room, Paul Mellon Centre
The Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) spent the last fifty years of her life in exile in England. In 1880 she purchased a large house at Farnborough in Hampshire, where she created a series of richly appointed interiors. This talk will outline the contents and display of her collection, most of which came from the great palaces of imperial France.
Image credit:Jacques Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Château de Versailles, 1801–1805. Digital image courtesy of France/Bridgeman Images
About the speaker
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Anthony Geraghty is professor of the History of Art at the University of York and Chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He is currently finishing a book about the Empress Eugenie in Farnborough, 1880-1920.
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