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Jacques-Louis David: Emperor Napoleon I  wikidata:Q70781085 reasonator:Q70781085
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Jacques-Louis David  (1748–1825)  wikidata:Q83155 q:it:Jacques-Louis David
 
Jacques-Louis David
Description French painter, politician and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 30 August 1748 Edit this at Wikidata 29 December 1825 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris City of Brussels
Work period neoclassicism
era QS:P2348,Q14378
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Paris, Rome, City of Brussels
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artist QS:P170,Q83155
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English: This portrait of Napoleon is believed to be the model for a larger composition, now lost. After his coronation in the Cathedral of Notre Dame on December 2, 1804, portraits like this one of the emperor in his ceremonial garb were commissioned and disseminated throughout Europe. Their main purpose was to establish an iconography of the emperor’s reign, which relied on royal conventions of sovereignty stretching back to Charlemagne. These customs were known intimately to David and his students, as David had attended the coronation and composed a large-scale painting of the event over a three-year period. Though this is a study, details that are typical of David’s portraits abound here; they include the reflections in the golden orb in the emperor’s left hand and the exquisite depictions of the contrasting textures of fur, velvet, and brocade in his robe.
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Napoleon Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1807
date QS:P571,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 88.3 x 59.4 cm
Harvard Art Museums.
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Place of creation France Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Further information at Harvard Art Museums.
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Source/Photographer See: Harvard Art Museums.
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