Original scientific paper
Eugène Emmanuel Ernest d’Halwin marquis de Piennes: a Portrait of a Donor of the Strossmayer Gallery in Zagreb
Borivoj Popovčak
; Strossmayerova galerija starih majstora HAZU
Abstract
Eugène Emmanuel Ernest d’Halwin, marquis de Piennes, a French aristocrat and diplomat of the Second Empire in the personal service of the Empress Eugenia, was born in Périers in the Manche department in Normandy on 20 January 1825. Between 1850 and 1862 he served as a diplomat in Munich, Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rome. Upon his return to Paris in 1862 he was appointed chamberlain to the Empress, a duty he obtained until the end of the Empire in 1870 and the exile of Napoleon III and the royal family to England. Due to his friendship with Baron Maurice de Hirsch, who initiated the construction of the railway from Vienna to Istanbul in 1869, the marquis became a member of the Oriental Railways committee.
Keywords
Marquis de Piennes; The Strossmayer Gallery of old Masters; 19th century; Donation; France; painting; Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Hrčak ID:
200111
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2012.
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