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The Coronation of Napoleon — David’s canvas of the 1804 coronation, exhibited at the Salon of 1808
Napoleon commissioned four large canvases from his painter a few weeks before the ceremony; this one shows not the emperor crowning himself, but the moment when he crowns the empress. Nearly two hundred figures appear in it, among them Madame Mère, who had not attended the coronation, and the painter himself in a gallery. (Editorial synthesis)
The Coronation of Napoleon was published in 1808. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
Recorded author of The Coronation of Napoleon: Jacques-Louis David.
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