Napoleon in Imperial Costume

Not to be confused with Napoleon I as Emperor.
Sketch (Lille).

Napoleon in Imperial Costume was an 1805 portrait of Napoleon I in his coronation robes by Jacques-Louis David. Originally intended for the Tribuna in Genoa, Napoleon was unhappy with it and it was left incomplete. It is known via a small oil sketch now in the Palais des beaux-arts de Lille.

Another version of the same subject was meant for Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia. It is now lost, but known via a copy attributed to Rouget now in the Fogg Art Museum, an incomplete canvas attributed to Sebastian Weygandt in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Kassel and a head study in the bibliothèque Thiers.

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Bibliography

  • Antoine Schnapper (ed.) and Arlette Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825 : catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective Louvre-Versailles 1989-1990, Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1989 (ISBN 2-711-82326-1)
  • Sophie Monneret, David et le néoclassicisme, Paris, Terrail, 1998 (ISBN 2879391865)
  • Simon Lee, David, Paris, Phaidon, 2002 (ISBN 0714891053)
  • Sylvain Laveissière (ed.), David Chanteranne, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Alain Pougetoux et al., Le Sacre de Napoléon peint par David, Paris, Milan, 5 Continents, 2004 (ISBN 978-8874391547)
  • Philippe Bordes, David, Empire to Exile, New Haven, Yale University press, 2005 (ISBN 0-300-12346-9)
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