The Borghese Collection - Paris, France
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A large part of the Borghese Collection of artworks are on view in the Louvre because Napoleon Bonaparte, a brother-in-law to Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, forced him to sell 344 pieces to the French state below their market price.
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Location: France
Date Posted: 06/12/2013
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Many of the sculptures and other pieces at the Louvre like the "Barbare captif" featured in the main photo here, are labeled at the Louvre as being part of the Borghese Collection.
Wikipedia (
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"In 1807, due to financial difficulties and pressure from his new brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte, Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese sold 344 antiquities (154 statues - including some major examples -, 160 busts, 170 bas-reliefs, 30 columns and various vases), from the collection to the French state at below their market price. These pieces, which now reside at the Louvre Museum, include:
sculptures recently excavated at Gabii
the Antinous Mondragone
the Borghese Gladiator
the Borghese Hermaphroditus
the Borghese Vase
He replaced them in the Villa with other pieces from excavations on Borghese property (e.g. the Gladiator Mosaic, found in 1834) and paintings from his residences' stores and cellars, so that already by the 1830s these gaps seem to have been filled and despite the losses the collection was still reckoned as one of the world's finest. Camillo even bought Correggio's celebrated Danäe in Paris in 1827."
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