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    in Spain, for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. Many of these remain in the Louvre, and elsewhere in France, today. In particular, Denon was one of the first...
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    architects Léon Dufourny or Pierre Fontaine. On Denon's suggestion in July 1803, the museum itself was renamed Musée Napoléon.: 79  The collection grew through...
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    17 August 2012. "In the Musée Denon de Chalon-sur-Saône". Philibert-leon-couturier.com. Retrieved 17 August 2012. "In the Musée La Fontaine at Château...
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    two amusing variations on the theme. In Le coq et la perle, now in the Musée Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône, the bird struts by with a pearl pendant hanging from...
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  • Besançon, Musée Denon in Chalon-sur-Saône, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice and Musée des Beaux-Arts...
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    south, the "Denon Wing" is the array of buildings between the Cour Napoléon and the Seine, named after the Louvre's first director Vivant Denon. the Louvre's...
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    perfect work of this century", whilst Denon wrote back to Napoleon in 1806 that it belonged indoors in the Musée Napoléon "among the emperors and in the...
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     32–34. ISBN 9781402728297. Wescher, Paul (September 1964). "Vivant Denon and the Musée Napoléon". Apollo: The International Magazine of Arts (31): 178–186...
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    leads to the temporary exhibition halls. The Musée is divided into three wings: Sully, Richelieu, and Denon, which showcase 35,000 pieces of art, much of...
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    same temple's pronaos. During the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, Vivant Denon drew the circular zodiac, the more widely known one, and the rectangular...
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