| Summary: | This article is a brief contribution on the history of the statue of Napoleon Bonaparte that is in TamandaréSquare. The sculptural work is written by the Italian Matteo Tonietti and represents one of the artist's most complex works of art, not only because of its complexity, but also because of the historical trajectory and the current position in the Rio Grande. The research extended to the understanding of the symbolic universe of sculpture, its sculptor and the bourgeois who commissioned the piece. By using the collective memory as a theoretical basis it was possible to understand how the trajectory of a wealthy family discards the possession of a unique work, the fruit of the political period of the time in which families lived and the patriarchs who commissioned them. The results of the analysis of the reports refer to the three moments of the statue and itsprivate and public trajectory.
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