Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascen
Ingres in c. 1850–1867
Male Torso (1800), Montauban, Musée Ingres
The Envoys of Agamemnon, 1801, oil on canvas, École des Beaux Arts, Paris
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is an 1806 portrait of Napoleon I of France in his coronation costume, painted by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
…the Emperor's face and hands were almost lost in the majestic costume. At the Salon, his paintings—Self-Portrait, portraits of the Rivière family, and Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne—received a very chilly reception. David delivered a severe judgement, and the critics were hostile. Chaussard (Le Pausanias Français, 1806) praised…
Engraving of Robert Lefèvre's Portrait of Napoleon in his coronation costume, engraving in the treatise by the Pausanias français.
Hubert and Jan van Eyck, God the Father – a panel from their Ghent Altarpiece