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Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I
Also titled Portret van keizer Napoleon I
c. 1805 - c. 1815
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 226.5 cm x width 146 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
After having seized power through a coup d’état in 1799, General Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor in 1804. In the meanwhile, he conquered large parts of Europe. The year 1812 was a turning point. His invasion of Russia failed and his forces lost the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig. In 1814 Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba. He escaped, but was definitively defeated 100 days later at the Battle of Waterloo.
