Napoleon Crossing the Alps
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805. Initially commissioned b
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Second version, now located in Charlottenburg Palace
First Versailles version
David's unfinished portrait of Napoleon from 1798
Château de Malmaison
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The Château de Malmaison is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres west of the centre of Paris, in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
…1816 to 1839. The painting was handed down through his descendants until 1949, when his great grandniece Eugénie bequeathed it to the museum of the Château de Malmaison. The version produced for the Château de Saint-Cloud from 1801 was removed in 1814 by the Prussian soldiers under von Blücher who offered it to King…
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Joséphine de Beauharnais at Malmaison in 1801 by François Gérard
View of the southwest facade of the Manor House