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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.
The Battle of Alexandria (painting) The Battle of Aspern-Essling; Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805 (Gérard) The Battle of Friedland (painting) The Battle of Hanau; The Battle of Jemappes; The Battle of Jena; The Battle of Montmirail; The Battle of Smolensk; Battle of the Pyramids, July 21, 1798 (study) The Battle of the Pyramids (painting)
The Madonna with the Baby Jesus Giving Benediction by Guercino, now at the Chambéry Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; The Holy Family Contemplating the Baby Jesus Sleeping by Francesco Gessi, now at the Clérmond-Ferrand Musée des Beaux-Arts; The Martyrdom of Saint Victoria by Giovanni Antonio Burrini, now at the Compiégne Musée National du Chateau
The painting depicts Napoleon in a room of the Palace of Fontainebleau. He appears with a thoughtful expression, while he sits informally in a chair. He has the appearance of someone who has just returned from combat, while he also wears his uniform of colonel of the horse grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, with his grey frock coat.
French Campaign, 1814 is one of the best-known artworks of Meissonier, and it is part of his Napoleonic cycle of paintings, with 1807, Friedland and The Morning of Castiglione (unfinished). It represents Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops during the grim retreat of the French Campaign of 1814.
The Battle of Friedland (painting) The Battle of Jena; The Battle of Smolensk; The Battle of the Pyramids (painting) The Battle of Wagram; The Battle of Waterloo (painting, Sadler II) The Black Brunswicker; Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole; Bonaparte Before the Sphinx; Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa ...
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; listed as Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard) is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
Assault on Saragossa is a history painting of 1845 by the Polish artist January Suchodolski. [1] It depicts the Siege of Zaragoza of 1808 during the Peninsular War, part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. [2] French troops are shown assaulting a breach in the wall of the Spanish city.