The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting Napoleon's coronation at Notre Dame de Paris. The oil painting has imposing dimensions, nearly ten meters wide by just over six meters tall, and it is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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Created By
Painted by Jacques-Louis David, 1805-1807.
In Form
1807 Neoclassical history painting by Jacques-Louis David.
In Genre
Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.
In Movement
David is the foremost Neoclassical painter; this is his signature work.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
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Wikimedia FoundationThe Coronation of Napoleon article, sentence on the painting medium
The oil painting has imposing dimensions
The Coronation of Napoleon article, opening sentence
The Coronation of Napoleon (French: Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting the coronation of Napoleon at Notre-Dame de Paris.
The Coronation of Napoleon article, sentence on current display location
The work is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
Genre reference
The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting Napoleon's coronation at Notre Dame de Paris.
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