File talk:Delaroche - Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes.jpg

This can be considered a more realistic alternative to “General Bonaparte crossing the Alps”:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Napoleon4.jpg

However, I don’t think he held his hand on his belly. That gesture means “my stomach is paining and I can’t do anything about it”. This event was before he begun to suffer from the chronically ill stomach that would make him to do so often. Holding a hand on your belly slightly reduces the pain. Believe me, I have tried! When nobody saw it, of cause.

2006-12-19 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.