Allegorical Portrait of Napoleon, after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
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Victor-Marie Picot
(Monthières, Somme, France, 1744–Amiens, France, 1805)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1796
MediumStipple engraving
DimensionsSheet: 16 3/16 × 21 1/2 in. (41.1 × 54.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Purchase, 2003.28
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2003.28
On View
Not on viewOne function of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture was to broadcast a positive image of the monarchy throughout the kingdom. After the overthrow of the king during the French Revolution (1789-1791), the Academy was reformed; its new function was to glorify the Republican government that took the monarchy’s place.
Prud’hon came of age during this revolutionary period and contributed to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise from general to emperor by mythologizing his victories and celebrating his leadership in paintings and in designs for widely distributed reproductive prints.
Exhibitions
![Napoléon en voiture de la victoire [Napoleon in Victory], after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon](/internal/media/dispatcher/17219/thumbnail)
Victor Joseph Roux-Champion
1927
Julien Léopold Boilly
1851
