Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Belvedere version)

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Belvedere version)

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Original – The Belvedere version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps; this set of five oil on canvas portraits of the French general (later emperor) Napoleon. It shows a strongly idealized view of the real crossing that Napoleon and his army made across the Alps through the Great St. Bernard Pass in May 1800.

Reason

High quality scan of an important and well-known David portrait. Can't have enough Napoleon!

Articles in which this image appears

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Jacques-Louis David

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:23, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Napoleon is always Napoleon. Hafspajen (talk) 07:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC) — Except when he's Napoleon Blownapart. Sca (talk)
• Support – Famous hagiographic image. Sca (talk) 13:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - SchroCat (talk) 10:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Very nice quality with good EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support – What a fantastic painting! CorinneSD (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^{It's pure fantasy, all right. Sca (talk) 13:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)}

• Support Yann (talk) 13:45, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - One of my all time favorite paintings, right since my class 3rd when I first saw it...-The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 15:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

• @Sca, I remember of your peculiar dislike of politicians. He was a political leader. -The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 15:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

• Napoleon Bonaparte was a megalomaniac whose military conquests caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It's not surprising that Napoleon's tomb was one of the half-dozen Paris sights adoringly visited by the conquering Hitler in June 1940. (Too bad the latter failed to learn from the former's experience in Russia.) Sca (talk) 15:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

• PS: See Beethoven's ultimate opinion of Napoleon here. Sca (talk) 15:35, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Napoleon at the Great St. Bernard - Jacques-Louis David - Google Cultural Institute.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)