Complete Inventory of Confiscated Art

Exact list of one hundred masterpieces of art chosen by French Commissioners to be transported from Rome to Paris, following the Treaty of Bologna(*), of 3 Messidor, Year 4 [June 21, 1796]

 

(*) An armistice was signed in that city; but the Peace Treaty was negotiated and signed at Tolentino on 1st Ventose Year 5 (February 19, 1797.)
Art. 7. The Pope renounces in perpetuity, cedes and transfers to the French Republic all his rights over the territories of the legations of Bologna, Ferrara and Romagna… Art. 13. Article 8 of the armistice treaty signed at Bologna concerning manuscripts and art objects will have its complete and most prompt execution possible.


From the Vatican Museum

  1. Apollo (Apollo Belvedere)
  2. Laocoön (Laocoön and His Sons)
  3. Torso (Belvedere Torso)
  4. Mercury called the Antinous
  5. Hercules with a child in his arms
  6. Demosthenes seated
  7. Trajan seated
  8. Menander seated
  9. Posidonius seated
  10. A warrior, called the Phocion
  11. Ariadne called the Cleopatra
  12. Two cupids, half-figure
  13. A Philosopher believed to be Sextus of Chaeronea
  14. Health (Hygieia)
  15. Juno
  16. Venus crouching
  17. Adonis
  18. Paris
  19. Discobolus
  20. Another Discobolus
  21. Bearded Bacchus, called the Sardanapalus
  22. Augustus
  23. A veiled Roman
  24. The Cybele of Capri
  25. Meleager
  26. The Nile (colossal figure)
  27. The Tiber (colossal figure)
  28. Ceres, colossal
  29. Melpomene, colossal
  30. Apollo musagetes
  31. The nine Muses found at Tivoli (items 31-39)
  32. A small seated Urania
  33. A small Clio

From the Capitoline Museum

  1. Equestrian statue, the large one
  2. Antinous
  3. Apollo with a griffin
  4. Cupid and Psyche
  5. A dying Gladiator
  6. A Faun playing the flute
  7. A young woman holding an urn in her hands
  8. Juno
  9. Venus
  10. Flora
  11. Antinous
  12. The philosopher Zeno

From the Palace of the Conservators

  1. The young man pulling a thorn from his foot (Spinario)

From the Pio-Clementine Museum – Busts

  1. Hadrian
  2. Antinous
  3. Serapis radiant
  4. Jupiter of Otricoli
  5. Triton of the Ocean
  6. Comedy
  7. Tragedy
  8. Demeter
  9. The Menelaus called Pasquino
  10. The Minerva of Castel Angelo

From the Capitoline Museum – Additional Busts

  1. A bust of M. Brutus
  2. The Ariadne
  3. The head of the Sun called the Alexander
  4. One of the four Dominars

From the Palace of the Conservators

  1. The bronze bust of Titus Brutus

Monuments of Another Kind – Pio-Clementine Museum

  1. A two-handled vase with masks and lyres
  2. A sepulchral altar placed in the portico before Antinous
  3. A tripod on which emblems of Apollo are engraved
  4. An altar with bas-relief sculpture found in the gallery of the Candelabra
  5. A large Candelabrum having a circle in the middle with bas relief
  6. Another Candelabrum whose base is four-sided
  7. Another with small atlases or small Atlantids on the pedestal
  8. Two Sphinxes of red granite (items 77-78)
  9. Two seats of white marble sculptured, taken from the door of the Museum of candelabra (items 79-80)
  10. Sarcophagus with the nine Muses
  11. Another with a marine Divinity
  12. Marble tripod

Paintings

  1. The Transfiguration by Raphael
  2. Communion of Saint Jerome by Domenichino
  3. Saint Romuald by Domenichino
  4. Entombment of Christ by Michelangelo
  5. The Dead Christ
  6. Saint Petronilla

From the Vatican Gallery

  1. Crucifixion of Saint Peter
  2. Miracle of Saint Gregory by Annibale Sacchi
  3. The Saint Thomas
  4. The Martyrdom of Two Saints by Valentin
  5. The Saint Erasmus by Poussin
  6. Saint Cecilia by Pierre Vanni
  7. The Holy Family by Poussin
  8. Fortune

Outside of Rome

  1. Coronation of the Virgin by Raphael
  2. The Ascension
  3. The Coronation of the Virgin

Supplement – Additional Works

Note: These precious objects followed the first hundred closely.

A Saint Jerome by Le Sueur, life-size
Descent from the Cross by Rubens
Battle of Zama won by Scipio
Actium, or the Last Sigh of Rome by Raphael
Additional Collections Mentioned

Collection of Forty-Two Roman Emperors

Collection representing the forty-two Roman emperors, by the most celebrated painters.

Other Notable Works

Virgin performing a miracle
Lighthouse of Messina in the strait of Scylla, by Vernet
Coronation of Charlemagne in Rome, by Michelangelo
Portrait of Sixtus V
Colossus of Rhodes by Vansbak
The Roman Republic dictating laws to the world
Saint Peter, of solid silver, life-size, head covered with diamonds
The Transfiguration, masterpiece by Correggio (February-March 1799)