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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]
Painting Andrea Mantegna: An Old Man and his Grandson: Painting Domenico Ghirlandaio: Pastoral Concert: Painting Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit: Painting Titian: Woman with a Mirror: Painting Titian: Venus and Cupid with a Satyr: Painting Antonio da Correggio: Susanna and the Elders: Painting Tintoretto: La Bella Nani: Painting Paolo Veronese ...
Louvre Museum, Paris The Intervention of the Sabine Women: 1799 oil on canvas 385 × 522 Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of Madame Récamier: 1800 oil on canvas 174 × 244 Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of a Young Woman: 1800 oil on canvas 75.5 × 57.5 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass: 1801 oil on canvas 261 ...
The sisters of Napoleon. In the replica, the dress of Napoleon's favorite sister is pink. This is the only change in the replica, despite it having been painted from memory. Charles-Francois Lebrun (1739–1824), the third consul alongside Napoleon and Cambacérès. Under the First Empire, he took the place of prince-architrésorier.
The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of his attempt to condense both movement and structure in his art. [1] It represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling.
Leonidas at Thermopylae is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France.David completed the massive work (3.95 m × 5.31 m) 15 years after he began, working on it from 1799 to 1803 and again in 1813–1814. [1]
The Louvre's pavillon de l'Horloge, refaced in the 1850s at the eastern end of the Nouveau Louvre. The expansion of the Louvre under Napoleon III in the 1850s, known at the time and until the 1980s as the Nouveau Louvre [1] [2] [3] or Louvre de Napoléon III, [4] was an iconic project of the Second French Empire and a centerpiece of its ambitious transformation of Paris. [5]
In 1797, soldiers of Napoleon's French Revolutionary Army plundered the picture as war booty during the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802). The pictorial area (67.29 m 2) of the canvas makes The Wedding Feast at Cana the most expansive picture in the paintings collection of the Musée du Louvre.