Napoleonic art

Finding Napoleon in Montreal

October 21, 2019

At the Napoleonic Historical Society 2019 conference, Chris Franke who honors Louis Anselm Briquet

In September, I spent three days in Montreal immersing myself in Napoleon Bonaparte with the Napoleonic Historical Society. As usual, the society’s annual conference was informative and entertaining. This year, the speakers covered a broad range of topics from war to art to political marriage to dueling etiquette. They examined Napoleon’s influence beyond France and […]

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Finding Napoleon in Portland, Oregon Part 2

July 31, 2017

The Portland Art Museum was one of those rare museums where I couldn’t find a work representing Napoleon Bonaparte or any aspect of his reign. An internet search through their collection, however, revealed this piece. It’s a photograph called Le Retraite de Napoléon (Napoleon’s Retreat). The artist Jim Riswold must have a dark sense of

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