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279 - Félix Pascal BACIOCCHI (1762-1841).
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Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
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Félix Pascal BACIOCCHI (1762-1841). Beautiful ensemble. Court suit and waistcoat. - Court coat in light brown woollen cloth, beautifully and finely embroidered in throw stitch in multicoloured silk thread, oak leaves and flower buds en suite. High collar and two pockets with notched flaps. Sleeves with large lapels, each decorated with three sequentially embroidered buttons. The suit is fastened at the front by nine large embroidered buttons and has two expectations for wearing the plaque of the order of the Legion of Honour. Two deep pockets with notched flaps, each trimmed with two large embroidered buttons. embroidered buttons. Embroidered breastplate with two embroidered buttons (one missing). Inner lining in fine ivory cloth. -Accompanied by its white waistcoat in silk ottoman, with high collar, two pockets with notched flaps and bib. flap pockets and bib; beautifully and profusely embroidered in multicoloured silk thread, decorated with foliage of foliage, pansies and flower buds in a row; embellished on the chest with a of small leaves and flower buds. Trimmed on the inside with fine white canvas with a drawstring at the back. Good condition. Consulate-Imperial period (note: two small pieces of canvas (3x2cm) have been cut from the inside of the folds folds, not visible when the suit is worn. There is also some rubbing at the bottom of one basque). Provenance : Descendants of the Baciocchi family. Biography : Félix-Pascal BACIOCCHI, Prince of Lucques and Piombino, General of the Empire and legislator, (Ajaccio, 1762 - Bologna, 1841). Born into a family of minor nobility, he was first second lieutenant in the Royal-Corsican regiment (1778), then lieutenant in the Corsican royal hunters (1788), before joining the armies of Var and Italy (1794), where he was promoted to infantry captain (1796), the year in which he asked Bonaparte, then general-in-chief of the army of Italy, for his sister Elisa's hand in marriage; Bonaparte refused, but the marriage nevertheless took place in Marseille in 1797. Shortly afterwards he was appointed colonel of the 26th light infantry regiment (1802). Promoted to brigadier general, officer of the Legion of Honour and appointed member of the Conservative Senate (1804). Then created Prince of Lucca and Piombino and Grand Duchy of Tuscany, made Prince Imperial and Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour (1805). Finally Major General (1809). Knight of the Order of Saint Joseph of Tuscany and Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece (1805). Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Holland (1808). Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Reunion (1812). After the fall of the Empire in 1815, he retired first to Trieste and then, after Elisa's death in 1820, to Bologna. He is buried there with his wife in the Basilica of San Petronio. See busts in Carrara marble, including those in the Château de Versailles museum and the Marmottan library in Boulogne-Billancourt.
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
Auction location
Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
Lot description modified on 06/10/2026 at 9:50 AM
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Michel Bury and Henri du Cray
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