Coronation of napoleon

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Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) Jacque Louis David, Emperor Napoleon, Neoclassical Art, Jacques Louis David, Harvard Art Museum, French History, French Empire, Napoleonic Wars, Oil Painting Reproductions

This portrait of Napoleon is believed to be the model for a larger composition, now lost. After his coronation in the Cathedral of Notre Dame on December 2, 1804, portraits like this one of the emperor in his ceremonial garb were commissioned and disseminated throughout Europe. Their main purpose was to establish an iconography of the emperor’s reign, which relied on royal conventions of sovereignty stretching back to Charlemagne. These customs were known intimately to David and his…

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