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Who is depicted in Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresâs painting Bonaparte as First Consul?
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Self-portrait, oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1800; in the Condé Museum, Chantilly, France.
The painting Bonaparte as First Consul (1804) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicts Napoleon Bonaparte.
At the time this portrait was commissioned, Napoleon served as the First Consul of France, a position that granted him significant dictatorial power following the Constitution of the Year VIII. This work represented Ingres's first official commission in the genre of portraiture.12