Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental ... of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of the Empress ...

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows ...

So you’d see a lot of civilian clothing mixed into those uniforms.” For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as ...