260 - Reliquary frame by Joseph Bouvier (1746–1839), personal physician to Laetitia Bonaparte, known as Madame Mère, featuring a black silhouette of her right profile and a fragment of her Legion of Honor eagle ribbon, accompanied by a handwritten explanatory note on paper: “A precious memento of my uncle, Joseph Bouvier, Doctor of Medicine, who died in Paris on November 27, 1839, at the age of 71. Physician to the Garde-Meuble and to Madame Mère, Napoleon’s mother, and Knight of the Legion of Honor. Of major historical significance. Joseph Bouvier was thus the personal physician of Letizia Bonaparte (Madame Mère), mother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as a physician attached to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne.”

Reliquary frame by Joseph Bouvier (1746–1839), personal physician to Laetitia Bonaparte, known as Madame Mère, featuring a black silhouette of her right profile and a fragment of her Legion of Honor eagle ribbon, accompanied by a handwritten explanatory note on paper: “A precious memento of my uncle, Joseph Bouvier, Doctor of Medicine, who died in Paris on November 27, 1839, at the age of 71. Physician to the Garde-Meuble and to Madame Mère, Napoleon’s mother, and Knight of the Legion of Honor. Of major historical significance. Joseph Bouvier was thus the personal physician of Letizia Bonaparte (Madame Mère), mother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as a physician attached to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne.” Presented in a rectangular gilded wooden frame. H. 25.7 x 9.2 cm (frame). History Born in Dôle, Marie-André-Joseph Bouvier came under the patronage of Buffon and was assigned to the epidemic control service at the Palace of Versailles. Having retired to Verneuil-sur-Oise during the Revolution, he returned to Paris under the Consulate and was appointed personal physician to Madame Mère and physician attached to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne. He was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor on March 26, 1804. He continued his career under the Bourbons as a consulting physician for the House of Saint-Denis.