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
Apollo (Apollo Belvedere)
Laocoön (Laocoön and His Sons)
Torso (Belvedere Torso)
Mercury called the Antinous
Hercules with a child in his arms
Demosthenes seated
Trajan seated
Menander seated
Posidonius seated
A warrior, called the Phocion
Ariadne called the Cleopatra
Two cupids, half-figure
A Philosopher believed to be Sextus of Chaeronea
Health (Hygieia)
Juno
Venus crouching
Adonis
Paris
Discobolus
Another Discobolus
Bearded Bacchus, called the Sardanapalus
Augustus
A veiled Roman
The Cybele of Capri
Meleager
The Nile (colossal figure)
The Tiber (colossal figure)
Ceres, colossal
Melpomene, colossal
Apollo musagetes
The nine Muses found at Tivoli (items 31-39)
A small seated Urania
A small Clio
From the Capitoline Museum
Equestrian statue, the large one
Antinous
Apollo with a griffin
Cupid and Psyche
A dying Gladiator
A Faun playing the flute
A young woman holding an urn in her hands
Juno
Venus
Flora
Antinous
The philosopher Zeno
From the Palace of the Conservators
The young man pulling a thorn from his foot (Spinario)
From the Pio-Clementine Museum – Busts
Hadrian
Antinous
Serapis radiant
Jupiter of Otricoli
Triton of the Ocean
Comedy
Tragedy
Demeter
The Menelaus called Pasquino
The Minerva of Castel Angelo
From the Capitoline Museum – Additional Busts
A bust of M. Brutus
The Ariadne
The head of the Sun called the Alexander
One of the four Dominars
From the Palace of the Conservators
The bronze bust of Titus Brutus
Monuments of Another Kind – Pio-Clementine Museum
A two-handled vase with masks and lyres
A sepulchral altar placed in the portico before Antinous
A tripod on which emblems of Apollo are engraved
An altar with bas-relief sculpture found in the gallery of the Candelabra
A large Candelabrum having a circle in the middle with bas relief
Another Candelabrum whose base is four-sided
Another with small atlases or small Atlantids on the pedestal
Two Sphinxes of red granite (items 77-78)
Two seats of white marble sculptured, taken from the door of the Museum of candelabra (items 79-80)
Sarcophagus with the nine Muses
Another with a marine Divinity
Marble tripod
Paintings
The Transfiguration by Raphael
Communion of Saint Jerome by Domenichino
Saint Romuald by Domenichino
Entombment of Christ by Michelangelo
The Dead Christ
Saint Petronilla
From the Vatican Gallery
Crucifixion of Saint Peter
Miracle of Saint Gregory by Annibale Sacchi
The Saint Thomas
The Martyrdom of Two Saints by Valentin
The Saint Erasmus by Poussin
Saint Cecilia by Pierre Vanni
The Holy Family by Poussin
Fortune
Outside of Rome
Coronation of the Virgin by Raphael
The Ascension
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