Portrait of Napoleon I
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- Object
- Portrait of Napoleon I
- Accession number
- 43.99
- Date
- designed 1805, woven 1808–11
- Makers
- baron François Gérard
- Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
- Michel Henri Cozette
- Harland the Elder
- Abel Nicolas Sollier
- Charles Duruy
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Medium
- Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch, 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame
- Dimensions
- 87 1/2 × 57 1/2 in. (222.3 × 146.1 cm) Framed: 8 ft. 9 3/4 in. × 75 3/4 in. (268.6 × 192.4 cm)
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1943
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- other
- Era
- Regency & Romantic (1800–1849)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool
- metal_stone