Portrait of the Dead Napoleon
Portrait of the Dead Napoleon by French Artist Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (1772 – 1855); a porcelain painter and considered best figure painter of the Sèvres factory at the beginning of the 19th century.
This is a portrait done of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) French military general and statesman, known as Napoleon I, who played a major role in the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799 and then served as first council of France from 1799 to 1804; becoming the first Emperor of France from 1804 to 1814/15.
The portrait was painted on porcelain sometime after 1821 and is a bust image of him in sleeping like pose cover in a white robe in a heavenly setting with clouds behind him to the left and the right with a gap behind his head and a partial cloud in front of him to his right.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Information below derived from https://www.culture.gouv.fr/
Marie was a painter of the Sèvres factory from 1801 to 1842 and she exhibited her porcelain paintings at the Salon from 1808 to 1836.
When she was 44 years of age she was presented with the title of First Painter on Porcelain of the Kings; which gave her the ability to open her workshop, where she taught both female and male students the art of porcelain painting for almost twenty years, including Marie-Adélaïde Ducluzeau (1787 – 1849) another painter of the Sèvres factory.