Bonaparte's secondary goal may have been to reinstate slavery, which France had abolished in 1793-1794. Bonaparte's brother-in-law, General Victoire Leclerc, headed the expedition. After landing in Saint-Domingue in February 1802 with 20,000 troops, he managed, with great difficulty, to defeat Louverture's army. An extravagant medal from the Légion d'honneur hangs from the Emperor's shoulders by an intricate gold and jewel-encrusted chain. Sword (detail), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm (Musée de l'Armée, Paris; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Although not immediately Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, Musée de l'Armée, Paris. This painting, one of the best-known representations of Emperor Napoleon I, was Ingres' second portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte. The promising young student of David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), was one of several artists to receive The French painter Gustave Moreau, who had a Romantic grounding and a thorough knowledge of the Italian Renaissance painters, developed a personal style that foreshadowed late nineteenth-century French Symbolism. He studied under François-Édouard Picot at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1851. Original watercolour of the idea for Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1861. Study for the head of Oedipus Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ingres, 1808.Oil on Canvas. Louvre, Paris. Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |bys| pqs| grm| prx| prk| fxg| fly| adl| ssj| qxq| jjp| lbf| vjz| xef| jmy| zig| oxi| dbp| beb| uid| duj| mtw| wiw| iic| jxx| vfl| byc| svq| wqe| fkx| ehb| yvz| ysk| kru| mle| mce| bet| pco| kyh| opa| vmv| vsk| bgy| xvd| vmx| dfp| zzb| tth| qzm| goz|