Bonaparte, First Consul (Gros)

This article is about the painting Bonaparte, First Consul, by Antoine-Jean Gros. For other uses, see Bonaparte, First Consul.
Bonaparte, First Consul
ArtistAntoine-Jean Gros
Year1802
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions205 cm × 127 cm (81 in × 50 in)
LocationMuseum of the Legion of Honour, Paris

Bonaparte, First Consul is an oil painting on canvas by French painter Antoine-Jean Gros, from 1802, which is a full-length portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul. The painting was commissioned by Napoleon himself who offered it to Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, the Second Consul. The original is on display at the Museum of the Legion of Honour, in Paris. Napoleon ordered that replicas of this portrait were made by several painters to be displayed in cities across France and Europe.[1]

  1. ^ Geneviève Lacambre, "Portrait de Bonaparte Premier consul: 89", in Pierre Rosenberg (coordinator), De David à Delacroix: La peinture française de 1774 à 1830, Paris, Édition des Musées Nationaux, 1974, pp. 466-467 (French)