2-750-880 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Napoleon decorating David at the Salon du Louvre, Paris, 1808, (1921). 'Napoleon décorant David au Salon de 1808'. Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) bestows the croix d'officier de la Légion d'honneur on French painter Jacques-Louis David, greatest painter of the Revolution and of the Empire. Behind Napoleon is Dominique Vivant Denon, director of the Musée Napoléon (the Louvre), and Crétet, minister of the interior. Also shown are the Empress Josephine and her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais. After an unifinished painting by Gros. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]