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Portrait of Pope Pius VII | |
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Artist | Jacques-Louis David |
Year | 1805 |
Type | oil on wood |
Dimensions | 86 cm × 71 cm (34 in × 28 in) |
Location | Louvre, Paris, France |
The Portrait of Pope Pius VII is an 1805 portrait of Pope Pius VII by the French painter Jacques-Louis David to thank the pope for assisting at the coronation of Napoleon I of France. Pope Pius appears in David's The Coronation of Napoleon, depicted as blessing the emperor, when in fact he was merely a spectator, assisting at the ceremony with a resigned expression throughout.