Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon
Alfred Thompson Gobert
1866–1879
- Medium
- porcelain with gilt bronze mounts
- Dimensions
- Overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, 19th century
About
Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon (1808-1893), whose portrait appears on this vase, was its first owner. He was a successful military leader who was given the titles of Duke of Magenta and Marshall of France by Napoleon III, but after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the end of the Second Empire, MacMahon was elected second President of the Third Republic of France.