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Louis XIV on Horseback, King of France and Navarre (1638-1715)

Artist: Houasse René-Antoine (French, 1645-1710)

Based on: Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690)

Date: 1679-1690

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Louis XIV

Louis XIV (1638 –1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign lasted 72 years and 110 days, which is the longest of any monarch in history

Napoleon's Tomb

Artist: Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)

Date: 1821

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

Description

Napoleon’s grave was by a narrow stream, but Vernet places it dramatically on a promontory by the sea, with the wreckage of a ship inscribed with the names of the Emperor’s most important battles. General Charles-Tristan Montholon (1783-1853) and General Henri-Gatien Bertrand (1773-1844) with his family, who were present on St. Helena, console one another, while the cloud-borne mourners in the right background include some of Napoleon’s dead Marshals. This picture is a version with minor variations of a painting (now untraced) which Vernet produced immediately after learning in July 1821 of Napoleon’s death on the island of St Helena two months earlier (on 5 May). The Wallace Collection’s painting was completed by October of the same year.

Louis XIII, King of France

Artist: Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602-1674)

Date: 1655

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII of France, called the Just (1601 – 1643), was King of France and Navarre 1 and co-prince of Andorra (1610–1643). He was the son of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici and was the father of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

Louis XVI

Artist: Antoine-Francois Callet (French, 1741-1823)

Date: 1778-1779

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Louis XVI

Louis XVI (1754 – 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. In 1770, he married Marie Antoinette. He became King of France and Navarre on his paternal grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, and reigned until the abolition of the monarchy on 21 September 1792.

Louis Philippe and His Sons

Artist: Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)

Genre: History

Date: 1846

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Depicted People:

Louis Philippe I

Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans

Prince Louis, Duke of Nemo

Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale

Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier

Description

Louis-Philippe and His Sons Riding Out from Versailles is an 1846 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It features a group portrait of Louis Philippe I and his sons riding out from the Palace of Versailles. Versailles, once the residence of the House of Bourbon during the Ancien régime before the French Revolution, had been abandoned for several decades. During the July Monarchy Louis Philippe oversaw its restoration as a national museum. Vernet's painting commemorates its inauguration on 10 June 1837. The king rides out through the gates accompanied by his five sons the Duke of Orléans, the Duke of Nemours, the Prince of Joinville, the Duke of Aumale and the Duke of Montpensier. Orléans, the king's eldest son and heir, had subsequently died in a carriage accident in 1842.

The painting was commissioned by the king to hang in Versailles, where it remains.

Portrait of Empress Josephine

Artist: Joseph Paelinck (Belgian, 1781-1839)

Date: c. 1807-1808

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine Bonaparte (23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Portrait of Napoleon I (1769-1821), in Coronation Costume )Portrait en Pied de Napoléon 1er (1769-1821), en Costume du Sacre)

Artist: François Gérard (French, 1770–1837)

Date: 1805

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of The History of France, Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Description

The painting depicts the emperor Napoleon I at his coronation on 2 December 1804.

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815. He led the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then ruled the French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814, and briefly again in 1815. He was King of Italy from 1805 to 1814 and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine from 1806 to 1813.

Meeting Between Napoleon and Ferdinand

Artist: Hippolyte Lecomte (French, 1781 - 1857)

Date: 1813

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Château de Versailles, France

Description

Lecomte painted picture Meeting Between Napoleon I (1769-1821) and Ferdinand III (1769-1824) Grand Duke of Tuscany at Wurtzburg, October 1806 in 1813.