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The Coronation of Napoleon [a] (French: Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting the coronation of Napoleon at Notre-Dame de Paris. The oil painting has imposing dimensions – it is almost 10 metres (33 ft) wide by a little over 6 metres (20 ft) tall.
The Public Viewing David's 'Coronation' at the Louvre is an 1810 oil painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. [1] [2] It depicts a crowd of spectators at the Salon of 1810 at the Louvre in Paris examining the painting The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David, which portrays the coronation of Napoleon and his first wife Josephine. [3]
The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum.
Object history: 1804: commissioned by Napoleon I, Paris (It remained the property of the artist) 1819: transferred to Musée Royal, Paris, from Jacques-Louis David, Paris 1837: transferred to Musée Versailles, Versailles, from Musée Royal, Paris. 1889: transferred to Musée de Louvre, Paris, from Musée Versailles, Versailles: Exhibition history
Exhibition history: Paris. Galerie Lebrun. "Ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit des Grecs [first exhibition]," May 17–July 3, 1826, no. 14 (as “Le public au salon du Louvre, regardant le Tableau du Sacre”).
France will launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine ...
The coronation of Napoleon and Josephine also differed in this respect from the pattern observed in other Western coronation rites: usually, in joint coronations of sovereign and consort, the sovereign is first anointed, invested with the regalia, crowned and enthroned, and only then is a similar but simplified rite of anointing, investiture ...
While the two worked at the Louvre Abu Dhabi together in 2009, they made the museum’s first acquisition, which came from Christie’s Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé Collection auction ...