
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Ingres’ state portrait of Napoleon the I is one of the most commanding ever done. He was a young man and a student of Jacques-Louis David when he painted this work.

Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Ingres’ state portrait of Napoleon the I is one of the most commanding ever done. He was a young man and a student of Jacques-Louis David when he painted this work.
People in France were like, "I’m so glad the era of facy, disconnected monarchs is….over…."
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