NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS MARKED A NEW ERA FOR FRANCE ... David to make this exact composition three more times. Since the original was in Charles IV's palace, Napoleon commissioned more for ...

‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’ (also known as ‘Napoleon at ... each with slight differences, with the original at Château de Malmaison, formerly the home of Napoleon’s wife Joséphine ...

By Esther Zuckerman Joaquin Phoenix, and his hats, in “Napoleon.”Credit ... the Jacques-Louis David painting “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps,” which shows him astride a rearing horse.

It’s Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps,” from 1801 ... and his studio made afterward Napoleon wears a red cape, but here, in the original, he’s wrapped in a mantle ...