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The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit (French: Entrevue de Napoléon Ier et d'Alexandre Ier sur le Niemen. 25 juin 1807) is an 1808 history painting by the French artist Adolphe Roehn. [1] [2] It depicts the scene on 25 June 1807 when Napoleon met with Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the middle of the River Neman.
Napoleon having first met Alexander on a raft in the middle of the Neman on 25 June, the two men had struck up a close bond. They negotiated the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition in which Napoleon had decisively defeat Russia and its Prussian allies. Alexander agreed to join Napoleon's Continental System directed at France's principal ...
Alexander is on the right of the picture while Napoleon's advisor on foreign affairs Talleyrand stands behind the table. The Prussian foreign minister August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz is also shown. It was commissioned during the July Monarchy by Louis Philippe I and is today in the Palace of Versailles. [3]
Napoleon I as Emperor, also known as Napoleon I in his Coronation Robes (French: Portrait de l’empereur Napoléon Ier en robe de sacre), is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist François Gérard, produced in 1805 under the First French Empire and currently displayed at the Palace of Versailles.
Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit (French: Napoléon Ier reçoit la reine de Prusse à Tilsitt, 6 juillet 1807) is an 1837 history painting by the French artist Nicolas Gosse. [1] It depicts a scene on 6 July 1807 during the negotiations of the Treaty of Tilsit during the Napoleonic Wars .
The chief architect of the King was Jacques Gabriel from 1734 until 1742, and then his more famous son, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, until the end of the reign.His major works included the Ecole Militaire, the ensemble of buildings overlooking the Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde; 1761–1770), and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (1764).
France is rolling out the red carpet for King Charles III's state visit at one of its most magnificent and emblematic monuments: the Palace of Versailles, which celebrates its 400th anniversary.
Louis XV furniture was designed not for the vast palace state rooms of the Versailles of Louis XIV, but for the smaller, more intimate salons created by Louis XV and by his mistresses, Madame de Pompadour and Madame DuBarry. It included several new types of furniture, including the commode and the chiffonier, and many pieces, particularly ...