2-688-347 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Napoleon Decorating the Artists', c1808, (1896). Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) awarding honours to artists including Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Carle Vernet, Pierre Cartellier, Antoine-Jean Gros, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, François Gérard and Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. Typogravure after the painting by Adolphe Yvon, after an unfinished painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, made after 1808. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., Macmillan & Co., Limited, New York & London, 1896]