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A version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, c. 1801. Belvedere Museum, Vienna.

Napoleon greets soldiers of the 7th Regiment at Grenoble, after his return to France at the beginning of the Hundred Days period (1815). Oil on canvas by Charles de Steuben, 1818. Private collection.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) and his staff during the French campaigns of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Within months, the Napoleonic Empire would be toppled. Oil on canvas by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1864. Musée...

Napoleon in exile on St. Helena, Watercolor by František Xaver Sandmann, c. 1820. National Museum of the Château de Malmaison.

Napoleon after his first abdication at Fontainebleau, April 1814. Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1845. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.

Emperor Napoleon I orders the II Corps of the Grande Armée into action at Augsburg on 12 October 1805, during the Ulm Campaign. Painting by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, 1808.

Emperor Napoleon I in his coronation robes. Painting by François Gérard, 1805. Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau.

Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1815) on his throne. Oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806. Musée de l'Armée, Paris.

Napoleon takes command at the Battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807, by Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan, c. 19th century.

Napoleon enters Berlin after defeating the Prussian army at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, oil on canvas painting by Charles Meynier, 1810. Palace of Versailles.