Simon Thorpe For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says.

His painting “Bonaparte Visiting the Victims of the Plague at Jaffa, March 11, 1799” launched his propaganda career.

For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says. “I put the emperor’s family into an empire ...

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