Paintings : 166
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PaintingWar. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
Turner’s work was often inspired by the Anglo-French conflicts of the Napoleonic period. The Battle of Trafalgar is depicted in his work from 1806 (Tate Gallery), and in 1822, he was commissioned by King George IV to produce a new painting on the subject (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich). The ships that participated in the battle, […]
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PaintingThe Angelus
The peasantry class can often be found at the heart of Jean-François Millet’s artistic work. Often featuring peasants and a social message, such as in Les Glaneuses [The Gleaners] in which they evoke the right, granted to the very poorest in society, to gather up the wheat ears after the harvest, Millet’s paintings explore the reality […]
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PaintingThe religious marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise in the Salon Carré at the Louvre, on 2 April, 1810
Napoleon I and Marie-Louise of Austria were married before God in a ‘chapel’ created by architects Percier and Fontaine out of the Salon Carré at the Louvre on 2 April, 1810. The wedding procession and cortege had to walk all the way from the Tuileries palace, down a great part of the Grande Galerie in […]
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PaintingLe Louvre de Napoléon III
On 14 August, 1857, the formal inauguration of the “Nouveau Louvre” took place. This new-look Louvre was in actual fact the amalgamation into a single unified palatial complex of the Louvre and the Palais des Tuileries, an accomplishment that confirmed Napoleon III arrival amongst the ranks of the great French monarchs. “The completion of the […]
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PaintingThe Apotheosis of Napoleon I
After the coup d’état in 1851, Ingres, a partisan of the new government, made no effort to hide his support for Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. His admiration for the nephew of Napoleon I, and his support for the imperial regime saw him receive and accept a commission which was probably made through the Prince Napoleon. On 2 […]
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PaintingGeneral de Lariboisière bids adieu to his son, just before the Battle of Borodino, 7 September, 1812
During the last years of the Empire, Gros’s talent as a history painter appeared to be on the wane; it would be through his military portraits that he would rediscover the creative intensity of his earlier work, such as Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa and Napoleon visiting the battlefield of Eylau. But whilst the […]
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PaintingLetizia Ramolino Bonaparte "Napoleonis Mater"
Charlotte Bonaparte, daughter of Joseph Bonaparte (brother of the French Emperor), painted this portrait, drawn from life, of her grandmother during a visit to the Palais Bonaparte in Rome. The portrait, one of the best examples of the imperial family, features the “mater Napoleonis” (mother of Napoleon) looking old and frail, having fractured her femur […]
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PaintingPrincess Mathilde’s dining room
Princess Mathilde (1820-1904) was the daughter of King Jerome, and was set to marry her cousin, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (the future Napoleon III) until the Strasbourg attempted coup d'état put an end to their engagement. Her later marriage to Prince Demidov also proved to be unsuccessful and unhappy, and their separation in 1847 was authorised by […]
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PaintingNapoleon and crown
The story behind this painting has for a long time intrigued historians of the painter Jacques Louis David. The portrait should be considered in reference to a painting of the Emperor in his imperial robes that David was commissioned to paint in 1805. The painting was destined to hang in the large law courts in […]
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PaintingQueen Luise-Auguste of Prussia
Signed and dated in bottom-left corner “Tischbein p : [ictor] 1798”. In 1793, Luise of Prussia (1776-1810), the daughter of Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married the newly crowned King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm III. Strongly attached to the Prussian royal family, Luise took her role as wife, mother and monarch very seriously and also […]