Portret van president Napoleon Bonaparte III
Medium
chalk lithograph
Dimensions
381; 549
About this artwork
height 549 mm x width 381 mm
Art Historical Context
**Portrait of President Napoleon Bonaparte** by Marie Alexandre Alophe (8) captures a pivotal moment in French history the elegant medium of chalk lithography. Measuring 549 mm high by 381 mm wide, this large-format print depicts Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte shortly after his landslide election as President of the Second French Republic on December 10, 8—the first by universal male suffrage. Al, a skilled 19th-century French lithographer renowned for his detailed portraits of political figures, renders the young leader with poised authority, his features softly modeled to convey both charisma and ...
About the Artist
Marie Alexandre Alophe · 1812–1883
Comment on works: lithographer; painter; photographer