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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]
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 Coronation of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed around 1434–1435 in Fiesole . It is now in the Musée du Louvre of Paris , France . The artist executed another Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1432), now in the Uffizi in Florence .
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The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1845, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Portrait of Pope Pius VII: 1805 oil on wood 86 × 71 Louvre Museum, Paris The Coronation of Napoleon: 1806–07 oil on canvas 621 × 979 Louvre Museum, Paris Sappho and Phaon: 1808 oil on canvas 225,3 × 262 Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia The Coronation of Napoleon (copy of 1806–07 painting ...
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.
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 ...