Sketch for 'The Coronation of Napoleon', c1807, (1921). 'Le Couronnement de l'Empereur'. Preparatory study for a painting of the coronation of Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) which took place on Sunday 2 December 1804 at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Napoleon crowns himself as Josephine kneels before him, hands in a gesture of prayer. 'Le Sacre de Napol?on' by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, was completed in 1807. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]