Miniature replica of the marble slab adorning Joseph Bonaparte's tomb
Black-leather-covered box with hinged lid and two latches, interior lined with purple velvet and satin. Box contains miniature replica of the marble slab adorning the tomb of Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte (1768-1844) consisting of rectangular red marble slab inset with black stone slab bordered with yellow marble; center black slab in inset with words "Joseph Napoleo Bonaparte In Pace" in gold lettering; top surface and sides of slab are polished.
2001.M02.01
Joseph Bonaparte's toiletry kit and leather case
Leather-covered toiletry case with silver plaque engraved "Legs du roi Joseph Napoleon a Adolph Mailliard." Hinged lid of case lined with red velvet contain 4 scissors (stamped Macdaniels, Oxford St.), nail file, 2 razors (stamped Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Liverpool), pocket knife, corkscrew, 2 button hooks (?); lower half of case lined with red leather and sub-divided to hold 6 glass jars with silver lids (engraved with crown and shield with eagle and several hallmarks), shaving brush; 2 ivory-handled toothbrushes, leather strop, and 2 indeterminate tools; hand mirror contained in removable velvet lined sleeve.
Joseph Rodgers & Sons
2001.M01.01
Porcelain chocolate set
Old Paris porcelain chocolate set, white with gold drapery decoration, France, c. 1830, consisting of one 9" plate; five 2 3/4" straight-side cups; five 2 1/4" round-sided cups; four 4 3/4" saucers; three 5" saucers. According to family tradition, this set was a gift from Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, elder brother of Napoleon I.
1830 (circa)
1994.M05.01-18
Joseph Bonaparte
Print of Joseph Bonaparte.
after painting by S. W. Reynolds
1984.04.01
Porcelain dinnerware
Several pieces of this white porcelain dinner service with overglaze of polychrome decoration have survived with a tradition that they were acquired at the "Point Breeze" sale. They are of the correct period and of a handsome and serviceable type that might have been regularly used in such a house. (Matching bowl is 1979.15.01.)
1800 (circa) - 1811 (circa)
1983.06.01-19
St. Catherine of Alexandria
Round portrait panel painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Her right hand rests on a wheel, referring to her death. She holds the palm of martyrdom in her left hand. According to Hopkinson family tradition, this unsigned, late Renaissance painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria was given to Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson by Joseph Bonaparte prior to his departure from "Point Breeze." It descended to Miss Emily G. Hopkinson from whom the donor acquired it for presentation to the Athenæum. During the early 19th century such "primitive" works were popular with collectors such as Joseph Bonaparte's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, from whom Joseph acquired several of his paintings.
1981.03.01
Landscape sketch
Oval pencil sketch (landscape) by Charlotte Bonaparte (1802-1839), daughter of Joseph Bonaparte. Signed "C. 1823" and inscribed: "20 Juillet 1833 / un Souvenir / de Joseph Bonaparte / a son ami Short / Peintre par/ Charlotte [?] fi." Also a later inscription: "20th July 1833, A Souvenir / of Joseph Bonaparte / to his friend Wm. Short / Drawn by my daughter / Charlotte. / C.W.S. / Jan. 1850." Set into a rectangular wooden frame 6 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Charlotte Bonaparte
1823 (circa)
1979.21.01
Curtain fragment from Point Breeze
Piece of curtain said to be from Point Breeze, Joseph Bonaparte's home near Bordentown, New Jersey. On paper which was pinned to curtains: "Piece of Madame Joseph Bonaparte's curtains."
Textured beige background with raised vertical stripes. Small embroidered design of flowers.
This scrap of fabric was preserved by the Bordentown Library as a souvenier taken when the furnishings of "Point Breeze" were sold at public auction in 1847.
1820 (circa)
1979.17.02
Curtain fragment from Point Breeze
Piece of curtain said to be from Point Breeze, Joseph Bonaparte's home near Bordentown, New Jersey. On paper which was pinned to curtains: "Piece of Madame Joseph Bonaparte's curtains."
Background is beige with raised vertical stripes of alternating solid and broken bars. Embroidered with heavy silk threads (rose, pink, beige, yellow, black and green) in main design of clusters of assorted flowers. This is bordered by an embroidered vertical pattern of alternating discs and petals in shades of gold, brown and pink.
This scrap of fabric was preserved by the Bordentown Library as a souvenier taken when the furnishings of "Point Breeze" were sold at public auction in 1847.
1820 (circa)
1979.17.01
Porcelain bowl
Glazed white porcelain bowl with overglaze polychrome decoration. Rim painted black with polychrome flowers (including roses, tulips, daisies, pansies, etc.) and gilt stylized leaves. Double rimmed base with narrow gilt band around outer base. Family tradition believes that this bowl was owned by Joseph Bonaparte. (Matching dinnerware is 1983.06.01-19.)
1979.15.01
Joseph Bonaparte, Comte de Survilliers
This pencil portrait is by Adolph Mailliard (b. 1819 in Bordentown, New Jersey), son of Bonaparte’s personal secretary, Louis Mailliard (b. 1795). It is believed that Adolph made the portrait on one of the many trips which Bonaparte and the Mailliards made to Europe. He sent the portrait as a gift to Mrs. Langhorne Thorne, the concierge at Point Breeze. Adolph settled in San Rafael, California in 1867.
Adolph Maillard, Jr.
1840 (circa)
1973.07.01
Elizabeth Patterson
Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860), youngest of Napoleon's brothers, married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore in 1803. (From that union are descended the American Bonapartes.) Napoleon, however, annulled the marriage by imperial decree and Jerome was made King of Westphalia shortly after his arranged marriage to Princess Catherine of Wurtenberg in 1807. Joseph Bonaparte gave this portrait of Elizabeth Patterson to Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson.
E.W.B.
1810 (circa) -1815 (circa)
1973.06.01
Pair of side chairs
Pair of mahogany Grecian side chairs, scroll back, saber legs, and Boulle inlay in cresting rail. These chairs are believed to have been made for Joseph Bonaparte's first home at Point Breeze near Bordentown, New Jersey, c. 1815. When the first Point Breeze burned in 1820, some of the furniture from the home was saved. It is believed that these two chairs were retrieved from the fire, as the forelegs on both chairs are charred on their back edges. The chairs were supposedly presented to Judge Hopkinson by Joseph Bonaparte, and they were presented to the Athenaeum by Miss Emily G. Hopkinson, who was one of Hopkinson's descendants.
1815 (circa)
1973.03.01-2
Fall front secretary desk
This fall front secretary desk is attributed to the French-born and trained cabinetmaker Michel Bouvier (1792-1874) who emigrated to Philadelphia after the collapse of the Empire in 1815. By 1819 he had established himself as a cabinetmaker, and in 1825 he was operating a "cabinet & sofa warehouse" on South Second Street, where he remained for more than thirty years. According to family tradition, Bouvier supplied this desk for Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) while superintending the building and furnishing of Bonaparte's home, "Point Breeze" near Bordentown, NJ on the Delaware River. It is believed that the desk later passed to Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850), a New Jersey lawyer who handled Bonaparte's legal affairs. The desk descended to Wall's daughter, Maria Matilda (b. 1815), the wife of New Jersey Governor Peter Dumont Vroom (1791-1874), and it remained in the Vroom family until presented to the Athenaeum in 1961.
Bouvier, Michel
1818 - 1820
1961.03.01
D. Joseph Napoleon Roi des Espagnes et des Indes
J. B.. Bosio; Louis Rados de Parme
Gift of Joseph N. DuBarry, IV
1810
Still Image
128-PR-038;
1984.02.01
S. A. I. Le Prince Napoleon
Goupil & Co.
128-PR-017
Bonaparte (Joseph) Sculpte par Delaistre
E. Heibert
128-PR-009
S.A.I. Le Prince Napoleon (Joseph Charles Paul) Commandant le 5e Corps de l'Armee d'Italie
Maurin
1822
128-PR-007
Joseph Bonaparte
128-PC-001