Napoleon in Imperial Costume
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| Artist | Jacques-Louis David |
| Year | 1805 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 58 cm × 49 cm (23 in × 19 in) |
| Location | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France |
Napoleon in Imperial Costume was an 1805 portrait of Napoleon I in his coronation robes by Jacques-Louis David. Originally intended for the Tribuna in Genoa, Napoleon was unhappy with it and it was left incomplete. It is known via a small oil sketch now in the Palais des beaux-arts de Lille.
Another version of the same subject was meant for Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia. It is now lost, but known via a copy attributed to Rouget now in the Fogg Art Museum, an incomplete canvas attributed to Sebastian Weygandt in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Kassel and a head study in the bibliothèque Thiers.
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