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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sotheby’s Paris is staging one of the most complete and high-profile Napoleon auctions in years — over 100 objects from the personal collection of French collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon.

Napoleon made a bold return from exile in 1815 only to lose his last shot at empire in a crushing defeat delivered by the Duke of Wellington and the combined forces of Europe.