Search. Artichive: Napoleon Crossing the Alps. From InpaperMagazine Published November 17, 2013 ...

NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS LED TO DAVID GETTING A MAJOR PROMOTION. By 1804, Napoleon had crowned himself emperor of France, and his preferred portrait painter was now "First Painter to the Emperor." ...

The Brooklyn Museum has hung Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps” alongside an adaptation by Kehinde Wiley. It’s a face-off between two visions of the political power of art.