BAL14744: Portrait Miniatures. L to R and T to B: Richard Whitmore by Bernard Lens (1682-1740); Katherine Whitmore by Bernard Lens (1682-1740); Queen Charlotte by Samuel Finney (1718-98); Unknown Boy by Thomas Redmond (1745-85); Peg Wolfington by A.B. Lens (1713-79); Unknown Woman by P.P. Lens (1714-50), Lens, Bernard III (1682-1740) / Bridgeman Images
OMG4606451: La Colonne Vendome, Place Vendome, the night in Paris. Today's square dates back to 1699 and was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). And it was only with the piercing of the Rue de la Paix that the Vendome Column was erected in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) to the glory of the victors of Austerlitz (1805). An admirer of Roman Antiquity, the Emperor took as model the Trajane column raised in Rome and had his statue erected as an imperator by Antoine Chaudet (1763-1810). After the regime changes, Napoleon III (1808-1873) installed a copy of the statue of the Emperor by Augustine Dumont (1801-1884). / Bridgeman Images