A Wikipedia article on the painter Jacques-Louis David, the leading figure of French Neoclassicism and Napoleon Bonaparte's chosen court painter, describing Napoleon Crossing the Alps as commissioned to commemorate the May 1800 crossing of the Great St Bernard Pass, with Napoleon refusing to sit for it and David using his own son as a posture model, borrowing Napoleon's actual uniform from the Marengo campaign for accuracy.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference on the artist, independently written from the atlas's other Napoleon portrait source, corroborating the commission and the sitting refusal. Claims Backed By This Source (6 claims)
This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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