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Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814; Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne; Napoleon in Imperial Costume; Napoleon in the Wilderness; Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps; Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau; Napoleon on the Bellerophon; Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit; Napoleon's Return from Elba (painting) Napoleon ...
The Napoleonic looting of art (French: Spoliations napoléoniennes) was a series of confiscations of artworks and precious objects carried out by the French Army or French officials in the conquered territories of the French Republic and Empire, including the Italian Peninsula, Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries, and Central Europe.
Joseph and His Wife of Putifarre by Leonello Spada, Lille, Musée des Beaux Arts; Rinaldo and Armida by Alessandro Tiarini, Lille, Palais des Beaux Arts; Saint Bernard of Siena Saving Carpi from an Enemy Army by Ludovico Carracci, Notre Dame Cathedral [3] Christ and the Adulteress by Giuseppe Porta, now at the Bordeaux Musee des Beaux-Arts [2]
Napoleon's Tomb' (French title: L'Apothéose de Napoléon) is an 1821 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An allegory , it depicts the apotheosis of the former emperor of France Napoleon following his death in exile on the island of Saint Helena .
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, stolen by Scottish officer James Hay during the Battle of Vitoria.. The art looting carried out by the Napoleonic troops and the government of Joseph Bonaparte —imposed by his brother Napoleon— during the Peninsular War (1808–1814) was the most important cultural plunder suffered by Spain.
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (1812), exhibiting the hand-in-waistcoat gesture. The hand-in-waistcoat (also referred to as hand-inside-vest, hand-in-jacket, hand-held-in, or hidden hand) is a gesture commonly found in portraiture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The pose appeared by the 1750s to indicate leadership in a ...
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (French: Bonaparte devant le Sphinx) is an 1886 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.It is also known as Oedipus (Œdipe).It depicts Napoleon Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign, positioned on horseback in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, with his army in the background.
The Truth is an 1870 oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre. It is in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris, since 1982. [1] The Truth was exhibited during the 1870 Salon and was bought by the French state in 1871. The painting depicts a naked woman standing, facing the viewers.