Charlotte Bonaparte
Charlotte Napoleone Bonaparte ( born October 31, 1802 in Paris, † March 3, 1839 in Sarzana ) was imperial princess.
She was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon, and Julie Clary (sister of Désirée Clary ( Napoleon's first love ) ) was born.
She was with her cousin Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, a son of Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon also one, and Hortense de Beauharnais, married.
Charlotte studied in Paris with the artist Louis Léopold Robert lithography.
Her father was employed by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as King of Naples, then as King of Spain, her uncle and later father- Louis Bonaparte as King of Holland. After the abdication of Louis Bonaparte on July 1, 1810 ruled her future husband Louis for exactly 10 days as his successor until the French army invaded and overthrew him. The couple had no children.
After her father was overthrown in 1813 as King of Spain, the family went to America, where they are on the river Delaware acquired the estate " Point Breeze " in Bordentown, New Jersey. The house consisted of a vast park and was equipped with numerous paintings by Titian and Rubens.
Charlotte, who called himself henceforth Countess of Survilliers, went back to the visual arts, painted portraits and landscape paintings and presented her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from.
From 1824 Charlotte was living in Europe again and died at the birth of her only child, her father was a Polish Count Potocki. She was buried in Saint -Leu- la -Forêt, near Paris, on the side of her husband and her in-laws.
Swell
- E. Benezit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et engraver. 1966, Volume 1, page 754 and Volume 7, pp. 279
- Patricia Tyson Stroud: The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon 's Brother Joseph. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2005, pp. 88-113.
- House Bonaparte
- Born in 1802
- Died in 1839
- Woman