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Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	Brussels
Work period	Neoclassicism
Work location	Paris, Rome, Brussels
Authority control	WorldCat

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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 control	WorldCat

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 the Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804

Description

Joséphine kneels before Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame. Behind him sits pope Pius VII.

Date

between 1805 and 1807

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 621 cm (244.5 in). Width: 979 cm (385.4 in).

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

Peinture française, room 75: Daru. Denon, 1 ^st floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Paintings).

Accession number

INV 3699

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

Inscriptions

Signature bottom right: L.David F.ebat [Louis David has made this]

Date bottom left: 1806 et 1807 - According to Joconde. Could not find it. Please check!

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References

Joconde database: entry 000PE000839

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 22500

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