François Gérard (1770-1837), Portrait of Josephine, 1801, Oil on canvas, 178 x 174 cm

LONDON.-France in Russia: Empress Josephine's Malmaison Collection, the last in the current series of exhibitions at the Hermitage Rooms, celebrates one of France's greatest heroines, Napoleon's consort Josephine (1763-1814). The exhibition focuses on her role as a collector and patron of the arts and brings together some of the finest paintings, sculpture and decorative arts that she acquired for her château of Malmaison, now housed in The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The exhibition also tells the remarkable story of this part of her collection's journey from Paris to Russia in the wake of Napoleon's defeat.
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