Study of the french frigate Muiron, 44-guns, by Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux (1765-1835)
The Muiron was captured on the stocks of the Venice dockyard during the first French occupation of 1797 and had the distinction of bringing Napoleon back from Egypt in 1799.
He later decreed that she be preserved and a commemorative inscription was applied in gold to her stern to record this, however this didn't stop her being used as a transport to Santo Domingo in 1802 or being damaged in a collision with HMS Pomone in 1807.
Repaired at Toulon, she became a headquarters hulk until 1811, then was sold and eventually broken up in 1850.
















