Talk:The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

Hand

What is Napoleon holding in his left hand? 68.207.195.216 (talk) 23:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

It's probably a seal. I notice he isn't wearing a wedding ring? Wasn't he married at this time, or wasn't it the custom in France then for men to wear rings? Drutt (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Commission

The painting was commissioned by a British subject from a French painter while Britain was at war with France. How was this arranged? Drutt (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

File:Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 22, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-06-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries is an oil painting on canvas completed by Jacques-Louis David in 1812. It depicts French Emperor Napoleon, wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers, standing in his study at the Tuileries Palace. Unlike David's earlier painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps, here the emperor is depicted as a civil hero rather than a military one, though his martial prowess is alluded to through the sword on his chair. The painting has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., since 1954.Painting: Jacques-Louis David

Issues

Someone with access to the printed source of information for this article might want to check a couple of things before it hits the main page. On the face of it, "sculpted stone base" describing the desk doesn't sound or look plausible. French WP has "un pied sculpté à motif décoratif représentant une tête de lion", "one leg carved with a decorative motif/design of a lion's head", nothing about a base, no mention of stone. The current wording isn't in the cited online source either. May need to be tweaked? Same for "three-quarters life size". French WP has "grandeur naturelle", life-size, for the size, and "debout de trois-quarts" for the pose, three-quarter view, not full-face. I suspect a mistranslation, but can't access the printed source. Cheers, Awien (talk) 11:53, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

I have a pic of Napoleon in his study at the bottom it does say the meuseum in Washington.. Is this worth any money

aprox.. 11by7 or more... Color print of Napoleon in the study 174.216.146.211 (talk) 03:28, 12 January 2024 (UTC)