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Jacques-Louis David: The Coronation of Napoleon   
Artist
Jacques-Louis David  (1748–1825)   
 
Description French painter, politician and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 30 August 1748  29 December 1825 
Location of birth/death Paris City of Brussels
Work period neoclassicism
era QS:P2348,Q14378
Work location
Paris, Rome, City of Brussels
Authority file
  • : Q83155
  • VIAF: 66575297
  • ISNI: 0000000121374173
  • ULAN: 500115221
  • LCCN: n50035639
  • NLA: 35033606
  • WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q83155
and
Georges Rouget  (1783–1869)  
 
Alternative names
Marie-Georges-Louis Rouget; Rouget
Description French painter and etcher
Date of birth/death 26 August 1783  9 April 1869 
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work location
France (1797-1869)
Authority file
  • : Q2164632
  • VIAF: 71506949
  • ISNI: 000000010914165X
  • ULAN: 500023788
  • LCCN: nr95044153
  • GND: 119430029
  • WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q2164632
Title
French:
Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon Ier et couronnement de l'impératrice Joséphine dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le 2 décembre 1804

Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804
title QS:P1476,fr:"Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon Ier et couronnement de l'impératrice Joséphine dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le 2 décembre 1804"
label QS:Lfr,"Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon Ier et couronnement de l'impératrice Joséphine dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le 2 décembre 1804"
label QS:Len,"Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804"
label QS:Lde,"Krönung von Kaiser Napoleon I. und Krönung der Kaiserin Josephine in der Notre-Dame de Paris, 2. Dezember 1804"
label QS:Les,"Coronación del emperador Napoleón I y Coronación de la Emperatriz Josefina en Notre-Dama de París, 2 de diciembre de 1804"
label QS:Lnl,"Kroning van keizer Napoleon I en de kroning van keizerin Josephine in de Notre-Dame van Parijs, 2 december 1804"
label QS:Lar,"تتويج الإمبراطور ناپُليون الأوَّل وزوجته جوزفين كاتدرائية نوتردام بباريس، يوم 2 كانون الأوَّل (ديسمبر) 1804"
Object type painting 
Genre history painting 
Description
Joséphine kneels before Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame. Behind him sits pope Pius VII.
Depicted people
  • Napoleon 
  • Joséphine de Beauharnais
  • Maria-Letizia Bonaparte
  • Louis Bonaparte
  • Joseph Bonaparte
  • Napoleon Charles Bonaparte
  • Elisa Bonaparte
  • Pauline Bonaparte
  • Caroline Bonaparte
  • Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance
  • Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
  • Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neufchatel and of Wagram
  • Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
  • Joachim Murat
  • Pius VII
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Hortense de Beauharnais
  • Julie Clary
  • Géraud Duroc
  • Catherine-Dominique Pérignon
  • François Joseph Lefebvre
  • Jean-Andoche Junot
  • Auguste Laurent de Rémusat
  • François Christophe de Kellermann
  • Jean-Baptiste de Belloy
  • Louis-Philippe de Ségur
  • Émilie de Beauharnais
  • Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld
  • Jean-Baptiste Bessières
  • Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
  • Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier
  • Louis-Auguste Juvénal des Ursins d'Harville
  • Martin-Roch-Xavier Estève
  • Carlo Francesco Maria Caselli
  • Raphaël de Monachis
  • Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli
  • Federico Gravina
  • Philipp von Cobenzl
  • John Armstrong Jr.
Date between 1805 and 1807
date QS:P571,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 621 cm (20.3 ft); width: 979 cm (10.7 yd)
dimensions QS:P2048,621U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,979U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
room 75 (Denon Wing, 1st floor)
Accession number
INV. 3699
Place of creation France 
Object history

1804: commissioned by Napoleon I, Paris (It remained the property of the artist)
1819: transferred to Musée Royal, Paris, from Jacques-Louis David, Paris
1837: transferred to Musée Versailles, Versailles, from Musée Royal, Paris

1889: transferred to Musée de Louvre, Paris, from Musée Versailles, Versailles
Exhibition history
  • Salon of 1808, 7 February 1808 - 21 March 1808 
Inscriptions
  • bottom right:
L. David.F.ebat 
  • bottom left:
1806 et 1807
References
  • Catalogue of the 1808 Salon, 144 
  • Jacques-Louis David catalog raisonné, 1973, 150
  • http://www.louvre.fr/oeuvre-notices/le-sacre-ou-le-couronnement (French) 
  • http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/consecration-emperor-napoleon-and-coronation-empress-josephine-december-2-1804 (English)
  • https://www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/4/406david.html
  • https://www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/4/407david.html
  • https://www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/4/408david.html
  • https://www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/4/409david.html
  • https://www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/4/405david.html
  • Joconde work ID: 000PE000839 
  • Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010065720 
  • Salons ID: 23070 
  • Panorama de l'art ID: sacre-de-lempereur-napoleon-ier-et-couronnement-de-limperatrice-josephine 
  • Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20372849 
Authority file
  • : Q1231009
  • Louvre: 010065720
  • BNF: 14584260m
  • Joconde: 000PE000839
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