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Paper cutout depicting a harbour with ships, by Derrick Patijn, 1790

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Napoleon Bonaparte by Hiroshi Sugimoto, c. 1999

From Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Portraits, a series of depictions of historical and contemporary figures. Sugimoto isolated wax figures from staged vignettes in waxworks museums, posed them in three-quarter-length view, and illuminated them to create haunting Rembrandt-esque portraits of historical figures, such as Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, Fidel Castro, and Princess Diana.

(Guggenheim)

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“It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

— Voltaire

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1754 Jean Valade - Louis de Silvestre

(Louvre Museum)

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Maïwenn Le Besco as Jeanne du Barry

Jeanne du Barry 2023.

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Arthur Rackham’s Illustrations for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales.

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Jeanne du Barry 2023

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-Diomedes Being Eaten by his Horses-

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-View of the Villa Borthese-

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John Mollo's personal handwritten costume design manuscript and diary which includes character designs, artwork, meeting notes and budgets, used for the design and production of Seasons 2 to 8 of the television series Hornblower II

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An evening snow covered street scene by Ludwig Munthe

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A bit after midnight, before Louis XVI went to sleep for the last time, his valet Cléry prepared the king for bed as usual. Cléry noted: "As I was about to roll his hair, he said to me, 'It is not worth while.'"

Then he slept, having told Cléry to wake him at 5 o'clock.

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watched some old historical costume films

Daniel Mesguich as Napoleon Bonaparte (Josephine ou la comedie des ambitions)

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Adolph Menzel - The Concert of Frederick the Great, detail

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Costumes of Napoleonic figures at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897

1. Aileen May (née Wyndham-Quin), Countess of Meath as Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland

2. Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (née Countess Josephine Kinsky) as Princess Pauline Bonaparte Borghese

3. Thérèse (née Kinsky), Countess Clary-Aldringen as Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Queen of Naples

4. Florence Anne (née Cole), Lady Delamere as Hortense de Beauharnais

5. Sir Charles Edward Cradock-Hartopp, 5th Bt as Napoleon I; Millicent Florence Eleanor (née Wilson), Lady Cradock-Hartopp (later Countess Cowley and Mrs Duberly) as the Empress Josephine

6. Lord Arthur Vincent Hay; William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale; Candida Louise, Marchioness of Tweeddale as the Empress Josephine

7. Kathleen (née Douglas-Pennant), Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier

8. Maria Henrietta Sophia Chaine (née Phipps) as Madame Sans Gêne

9. Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin as Marshal Lefevre

10. Catherine Dorothea Mary Grosvenor (née Simeon) as Marie Louise

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Christmas decorations at Stourhead 🎄

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Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon 1927.