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 i 1799 and then served as first council of France from 1799 i 1804; becoming the first Emperor of France from 1804 i 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.
Mae hwn yn atgynhyrchiad hen feistri celf ddigidol wedi'i ailfeistroli o ddelwedd parth cyhoeddus sydd ar gael fel a print cynfas ar-lein.
Information below derived from https://www.culture.gouv.fr/
Marie was a painter of the Sèvres factory from 1801 i 1842 and she exhibited her porcelain paintings at the Salon from 1808 i 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.