Ingres's Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
1806 · Work
The new Emperor enthroned like Jupiter in ermine and gold, painted with a jeweller's precision — mocked as 'Gothic' when shown in 1806.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, France, Master, Napoleonic Wars, Arts and Thoughts
More from Painting & Sculpture
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Michelangelo's David (1501)
- First Impressionist exhibition (1874)
- Johannes Vermeer (1632)
- Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks (1483)
- Venus de Milo carved (130 BCE)
- Andy Warhol (1928)
- Bust of Nefertiti (1345 BCE)
Around 1806
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)