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Portrait of Napoleon III (Flandrin)
This article is about the portrait of Napoleon III by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. For other uses, see Portrait of Napoleon III.
Painting by Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of Napoleon III (initially called in French Portrait de S.
M. l'Empereur,[1] 'Portrait of His Majesty the Emperor') is an oil painting of by the French painter Hippolyte Flandrin, depicting France's EmperorNapoleon III standing in his Grand Cabinet. It is held at the Musée de l'Histoire de France, in Paris.
At its first presentation in the Universal Exhibition in , the painting attracted praise for its true-to-life representation of Napoleon III.
In , the newly-appointed Emperor of the French Napoleon III commissioned Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, a pupil of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and specialized painter of religious figures, to work on a standing portrait of him.[2] The Emperor, displeased by Flandrin's depiction of him, cancelled the commission, and