651. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823), French,

The Empress Josephine, 1805. Oil on canvas,

244 x 179 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Romanticism.

 

 

His nickname was the “French Correggio”. Prud’hon represents Josephine de Beauharnais in a poetic landscape emulating the admired English “plein-air” portraits.