A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a whopping total of ...

Among the top lots was a painting of Napoleon by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, which sold for 20 times its estimate at $1 million.

Napoleon’s armies had been followed everywhere by savants and antiquarians, scholars we might even call curators, with instructions to sel ect works of art from every subject state.

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...

Napoleon famously said the 1807 work was “not a painting, one walks into this picture” and he was not wrong. As one of the largest oil paintings hanging in the Louvre, the work, which the ...

Diogène Ulysse Napoléon‏ Maillart was a French painter who was born in 1840. How much does a Diogène Ulysse Napoléon‏ Maillart cost? Diogène Ulysse Napoléon‏ Maillart's work has been offered at ...

What is Diogène Ulysse Napoléon‏ Maillart's most expensive painting? Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 26,250 USD for Young Romani water carrier, sold at Heritage Auctions, ...

For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says.

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today.