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| 'Napoleon on his imperial throne' (1806) by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres; Musée de l'Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris |
I think I might start to develop a taste for paintings depicting kings or other heads of state in, some would say, monstrous robes, but I would call it a glorious outfit (see for a similar outfit the post of the 5th of January). Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres did a fine job portraying Napoleon on his imperial throne. I have a thing for fabrics in paintings and I am always amazed how painters can transfer the feel of a certain fabric to the canvas. I find it astonishing that you can see that for the greater part these robes are made of velvet. I chose Napoleon for this post because of a historical event on the 10th of January, 1810. Nothing military though. It was the day he divorced his first wife Joséphine.
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