Napoléon Bonaparte
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Portraits[edit]
Contemporary paintings[edit]
David[edit]
Napoleon crosses the St. Bernard by Jacques-Louis David (5 versions)[edit]
1800/1, Château de Malmaison
Napoleon crosses the St. Bernard, by Jacques-Louis David (Berlin), 1800
Napoleon crosses the St. Bernard, by Jacques-Louis David (Wien), 1800
Napoleon, by Jacques-Louis David, 1797
Napoleon arrives at the Town Hall, by Jacques-Louis David, 1805
Etude pour Napoléon se couronnant, by Jacques-Louis David
L'Empereur Napoléon se couronnant lui-même, by Jacques-Louis David
Etude pour le Couronnement, by Jacques-Louis David, 1805
Le Couronnement de l'Empereur et de l'Impératrice, by Jacques-Louis David, 1807/08
Le Couronnement de l'Empereur et de l'Impératrice, by Jacques-Louis David, 1807/08 (Detail)
Portrait de Napoléon en costume impérial, by Jacques-Louis David, 1805 (Sketch)
Le Serment de l'armée fait à l'Empereur après la distribution des Aigles au Champ-de-Mars le 5 décembre 1804, by Jacques-Louis David, 1810
Portrait de Napoléon dans son cabinet de travail, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812
Portrait de Napoléon dans son cabinet de travail, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812
Ingres[edit]
Napoleon as 1st consul, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1803-1804
Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1806
Gros[edit]
Bonaparte on the Arcole Bridge, by Antoine-Jean Gros (Study), 1796.
First Consul Bonaparte, by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1802
First Consul Bonaparte, by Antoine-Jean Gros (Detail), c. 1802
Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1804.
Napoléon à la bataille d'Eylau by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1808.
Bonaparte à la bataille des pyramides by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1810.
Entrevue de Napoléon et François II by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1812.
Gérard[edit]
Napoléon Ier en costume du Sacre by François Gérard, 1805
Napoléon Ier en uniforme de colonel des grenadiers à pied de la Garde by François Gérard, c. 1812
Others[edit]
Napoleon, King of Italy, by Andrea Appiani, 1805
Napoléon, by Jean-François Garneray, c. 1805
Consulta de la République cisalpine réunie en comices à Lyon, by Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1808
Première distribution des décorations de la Légion d'honneur, le 14 juillet 1804, by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1812
Posthumous paintings[edit]
Napoleon on Saint Helena, painted in 1828 by Charles de Steuben
Mort de Napoléon Ier à Sainte-Hélène, le 5 mai 1821, by Charles de Steuben, c. 1828
Napoleon by Nicholas-Toussaint Charlet, 1835
Napoleon in Portoferraio by Leo von Klenze, 1839
Le général Bonaparte au Conseil des Cinq-Cents, à Saint Cloud. 10 novembre 1799 by François Bouchot, 1840
Napoleon I. mit seinen Generalen by Ludwig Elsholtz, 1845
Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau by Paul Delaroche, 1845
Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes, by Paul Delaroche, 1848
Installation du Conseil d'État au palais du Petit-Luxembourg, 25 décembre 1799, by Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder, 1856
Napolóen Bonaparte in Cairo, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1863
Napoleon throwing a book of the Marquis de Sade into the fire, 1885, (probably by P. Cousturier)
Missing information about the date[edit]
Scenes from the Napoleonic Wars[edit]
The Battle of Abukir, by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1806
Bonaparte visits Jaffa 1799, by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804
Bataille de Marengo, by Louis-François Lejeune, 1802
Napoleon Bonaparte on the Battlefield of Eylau, 1807, by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1808
Napoleon returns to the Lobau island on May 23, 1809, by Charles Meynier
A bivouac of Polish Uhlans at Wagram (July 1809), by January Suchodolski
La carga de los Mamelucos, or The Second of May of 1808 by Francisco de Goya, 1814
Bataille de Somo-Sierra en Castille, le 30 novembre 1808, by Louis-François Lejeune, 1810
Capitulation of Madrid (Detail), by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1810
Napoleon arrives at Berlin, by Charles Meynier, 1810
Napoleon near Borodino by Vasiliy Vereshagin
Napoleon retreats from Moscow, by Adolf Northern
Napoleon's Entry into the City of Berlin, by George Cruikshank, 1828
1814. Campagne de France, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1864
La bataille de Waterloo. 18 juin 1815, by Clément-Auguste Andrieux, 1852
Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli, by Felix Philipoteaux
Napoleon Pardoning the Rebels at Cairo by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Napoleon crosses the Elbe, by Józef Brodowski, 1895
Napoleons Einzug in Berlin 1806. by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines
Caricatures[edit]
James Gillray: Exit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité, 1799
Thomas Rowlandson: Boney and his new wife, 16 August 1810
Leipzig as a hard nut for Napoleon
George Cruikshank: Comparative Anatomy or Bone-ys new Conscripts filling up the Skeletons of the Old Regiments, November 1813
William Elmes: John Bull bringing Bony's nose to the grindstone, 21 March 1814
Amos Doolittle: Bonaparte in Trouble, 1814
Zu Befehl!. Karikatur von Achille Devéria
Napoleon: the myth[edit]
Triumph Bonapartes oder Der Frieden, Sketch by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, before 1801
Apotheosis of Napoleon, by Andrea Appiani, 1807
"Ils grognaient, et le suivaient toujours" by Auguste Raffet, 1836
Le transfert des cendres de Napoléon à bord de La Belle Poule, le 15 octobre 1840 by Eugène Isabey, 1843
Transbordement des cendres de Napoléon Ier. de La Belle Poule sur le Normandie en rade de Cherbourg, 8 décembre 1840 by Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, 1841
The Napoleonic Empire[edit]
Map of the First French Empire and satellite states
Sculptures, memorial plaques, etc.[edit]
Column and statue in Boulogne-sur-Mer
Nude Napoleon statue by Antonio Canova in Wellington's Apsley House, London
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois battle, the 1st of marsh 1814
en:Place du Chatelet monument to Napoleon's victories
Plaque on the house, Markt 22, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
Statue of Napoleon in Napoleons Villa on Elba island
Material artifacts[edit]
Crown[edit]
Monnaie[edit]
Napoleon, 1803.
40 lire gold. 1812
Gold 20 Franc Coin of Napoleon I, struck 1808. Known as Napoleon Gold, the French began to simply call these coins, "Napoleons." Left image, obverse: (French) NAPOLEON EMPEREUR (English, "NAPOLEON EMPEROR"). Right image, reverse: (French) REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, 1808, 20 FRANCS (English, "FRENCH REPUBLIC, 1808, 20 FRANCS)
Stamps[edit]
See also[edit]
- Joséphine de Beauharnais (first wife)
- Marie-Louise von Österreich (second wife)
- Napoleon II (son)
- Grablied on Napoleon by Michael von Jung (Wikisource)