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

The collection, amassed over 40 years, comes from the trove of avid Napoleon collector and socialite Pierre-Jean Chalençon ...

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

A vast and varied collection of artifacts—all related to the life and legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte—is heading to the auction ...

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was ...

Additionally, in an admittedly impressive homage, Scott re-creates one of the most famous paintings of Napoleon and, no, I won’t tell you which one it is. Kirby is woefully underused ...

Napoleon after hearing that Paris had fallen in March 1814. Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1845. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte possessed ...

BERTAUD: He orders a painting after a victory. He dictates the theme, the layout of the characters. He even orders the dimensions of the frame. TULARD: From the very beginning Napoleon gave ...