"Napoleon III’s Wife and Son -- Rare paintings" Topic

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Nashville	27 Mar 2016 4:45 p.m. PST
These paintings of Napoleon III's wife and son are held in a private collection in Spain – they were displayed in Nashville at a the Frist. I doubt any of us have seen these before. The sign for the young boy says he is holding a shotgun! Come on. That is a miniature rife but hardly a shotgun.
abelp01	27 Mar 2016 5:36 p.m. PST
That and the fact that he died in 1879 not 1897! Wow, unbelievable error!
abelp01	27 Mar 2016 5:49 p.m. PST
And it's Eugenia Luis Juan (not Jaun) José in Spanish. Whomever prepared this placard is an illiterate who has no idea about fact checking, to the point that they give the princes' birth and death dates next to his name & the botches it in the text!
rmaker	27 Mar 2016 5:58 p.m. PST
the fact that he died in 1879 not 1897! Wow, unbelievable error! It's what we call in the business a typo. Eugenia No, Eugenio is the masculine form. Eugenia was his mother.
Nashville	27 Mar 2016 6:01 p.m. PST
Well he isn't 4 in the painting. He is 7.
abelp01	27 Mar 2016 6:20 p.m. PST
Yes Eugenio, stupid auto-correct! Nope, just illiterate.
Northern Monkey	27 Mar 2016 7:43 p.m. PST
And that's a musket, not a shotgun. Particularly obvious as a shotgun doesn't have a bayonet!
Nashville	28 Mar 2016 12:01 p.m. PST
The museum is fixing the sign.!
jaxenro	04 Apr 2016 2:25 p.m. PST
Plenty of shotguns have bayonets ever seen a Model 1897 Winchester US Military Trench Shotgun? That looks like a back action percussion gun could be smooth bore