Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806
He sits facing you in bees and ermine. Scepter in one hand. Hand of Justice in the other. The eagle carpet waits under his shoes.
About this work
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted this portrait of Napoleon in 1806, two years after he crowned himself Emperor of the French. Napoleon sits facing us on a round-backed throne in his coronation costume: a golden laurel wreath like Julius Caesar's, an ermine collar under the great collar of the Légion d'honneur, and a purple velvet cloak lined with ermine and embroidered with gold bees. He holds the sceptre of Charlemagne in his right hand and the hand of justice in his left, and an imperial eagle spreads across the carpet beneath his feet. The rigid frontal pose recalls Phidias's colossal statue of Zeus at Olympia, and the art historian Robert Rosenblum saw its model in God the Father from Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, then in the Louvre. In the carpet's border Ingres slipped in a small version of Raphael's Madonna della seggiola, a tribute to the painter he most admired. The portrait was shown at the Salon of 1806, owned by the Corps législatif. It passed to the Louvre in 1815 and has been in Paris's Musée de l'Armée, at Les Invalides, since 1832.
Sources: Wikipedia · Wikipedia: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 4,056 × 6,466 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 27 × 43 in
- Sizes
- Small (13 × 20 in) · $100 · 312 ppi
Medium (15 × 24 in) · $150 · 269 ppi
Large (23 × 36 in) · $300 · 176 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
FAQ
Where can I buy a framed print of Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne?
Here. Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (13 × 20 in) for $100, Medium (15 × 24 in) for $150 and Large (23 × 36 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne?
The file is 4,056 × 6,466 px, so every size is sharp: even Large (23 × 36 in) prints at 176 ppi. Choose Large (23 × 36 in) for a large wall; Small (13 × 20 in) suits a narrower space.
Is it legal to print Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne?
Yes, with credit. Ingres's painting of 1806 is in the public domain, and in the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999). The photograph we print was published by the Musée de l'Armée, Paris, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, so we credit the museum on this page.
