Paintings : 166
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PaintingMadame Tallien
More than any other period in the history of France, that of the Directory paved the way for certain emblematic women to make their mark and almost to become symbols of the renewed vigor of social life after the torments of the Revolution and particularly the Terreur. And the painter Gérard immortalised the most famous […]
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PaintingAllegorical drawing to the glory of H. M. the Emperor
It was at the Salon of 1810 that Goubaud first made his name, with a painting entitled, A deputation from the Roman Senate offering its homage to H. M. the Emperor and King, a work purchased by the government and which today hangs in the museum at the Château de Versailles. He was to present […]
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PaintingThe arrival of Marie-Louise in Compiègne
In his amassing of titles over the years, Isabey became successively: painter and draughtsman for His Majesty’s cabinet; painter and draughtsman for ceremonies and foreign relations; organiser of public festivals and fêtes at the Tuileries; draughtsman of the Seal and of Titles; first painter of the empress Josephine’s chamber; decorator for the imperial theatres; and […]
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PaintingLe Sacre ou le Couronnement de Napoleon (Napoleon’s Consecration or Coronation)
Napoleon commissioned Jacques-Louis David to paint the Sacre de Napoléon (Louvre Museum) in October 1804, and the work was supposed to illustrate the forthcoming ceremony at Notre-Dame (2 December). Three other paintings were also planned but only one of them, The Distribution of the Aigles, was to be executed (Versailles). David, the painter of the Death […]
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PaintingFair by a river
Of Flemish origin, Jean-Louis Demarne made his name as an illustrator of the rustic mores of his day, concentrating on the daily life of the working classes from the Revolution to the Empire period. Taking his inspiration from the Dutch School, his exceedingly prolific output is characterised by picturesque compositions, where the artist gives himself […]
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PaintingPortrait of Madame Fouler, Comtesse de Relingue
Renowned for his paintings of the mores of his time, Louis-Léopold Boilly was also appreciated for his talent as a portrait painter. The model here is Madame de Fouler, wife of Albert-Louis-Emmanuel Fouler, Brigadier General and later Division General, squire to the empress Josephine from 1804 to 1809 (indeed he formed part of the empress […]
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PaintingGeneral Bonaparte and his chief of staff, General Berthier, at the Battle of Marengo
The victory at Marengo was celebrated in many different works of art, both paintings and sculptures, some commissioned and giving the official propaganda, and others the personal initiative of artists with an eye to the main chance hoping to attract the favourable influence of the victor and new master of France. This huge painting here […]
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PaintingThe Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris
When the Dutchman Jongkind discovered Paris at the end of the reign of Louis-Philippe, it was a revelation to him. The young landscape painter had been attracted to the capital by the painter Eugène Isabey, whom he had met in The Hague, and he was to paint some of his major works in this city. […]
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PaintingThe execution of the Duc d’Enghien
It was simply by dint of his remarkable artistic talents that Jean-Paul Laurens, scion of a peasant family from Fourquevaux in the Haute-Garonne, managed to get himself accepted at the Toulouse Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse. On the strength of this, he received a bursary from the town which enabled him in 1860 to join […]
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PaintingMadame R. or Rachel in the role of Camille
Of all the legendary figures of French theatre, Rachel remains one of the most fascinating. Born in poverty in 1821, the daughter of Alsatian jewish pedlars, little Elisa Félix, not yet 17, made her debut in 1838 under the name of Rachel, and her career was to bring her the greatest success. Indeed, she was […]