The painting depicts Bannon in the style of The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, an 1812 work by Jacques-Louis David that hangs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

By contrast, in the painting’s warm, dusky hues, Napoleon is a florid pillar of unperturbed, even heroic strength. Amid a grim, foreign tableau of misery and woe, he radiates light at center stage.

The oil painting, he goes on to describe, depicts Bannon dressed as Napoleon posing as the French emperor did in the portrait The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David.

The painting was sold at auction in 2005 with a guide price of £15,000 A painting of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David has been identified in New York by a University of Reading ...

A painting featuring a young Conrad Black dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte is being repurchased by Lord Black's former friend and colleague, Henry (Hal) Jackman.

“All art is autobiographical,” Federico Fellini once said. “The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” No one would accuse Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s two-and-a-half-hour epic (that’s ...

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon hung an oil painting of himself dressed as Napoleon on his office wall in the before the 2016 election, according to a report from New York Magazine.. The ...

A long-lost portrait of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte has been discovered in New York after a cleaning revealed that it was a genuine 1813 work by Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, and ...

Bannon, who “had a healthy self-regard,” had an oil painting of himself as Napoleon created in the same style as Jacques-Louis David’s famous neo-classical work.

An 1813 painting of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David is identified in New York by a University of Reading researcher.