1.
Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne
(Napoleon Enthroned)
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES (1780–67)
1806
Oil on canvas
260 x 163 cm
Acquired during the August 1806 session of the Corps Législatif
(now the Palais Bourbon); After the fall of the Empire, transferred
to the Musée du Louvre (inc. 5420); loaned to the Hôtel
des Invalides in 1832; transferred to the Musée historique de
l’Armée (Musée de l’Armée from 1905) in 1897
*Musée de l’Armée, Paris (inv. 4, Ea 89/1)
*Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts