Bonaparte, First Consul

This article is about Bonaparte, First Consul, painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. For other uses, see Bonaparte, First Consul (Gros).

Bonaparte, First Consul
ArtistJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Year1804
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions226 cm × 144 cm (89 in × 57 in)
LocationCurtius Museum, Liège

Bonaparte, First Consul (Bonaparte, Premier Consul) is an 1804 portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The painting is now in the collection of the Curtius Museum in Liège. Posing the hand inside the waistcoat was often used in portraits of rulers to indicate calm and stable leadership.[1]

  1. ^ Uwe Fleckner, "Napoleons Hand in der Weste: von der ethischen zur politischen Rhetorik einer Geste' ['Napoleon's hand in the waistcoat: from the ethical to the political rhetoric of a gesture'] Daidalos 64 (June 1997), 122-29