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Before you hangs one of history's most audacious paintings. David's canvas is nearly ten metres wide — a panorama of 2 December 1804, when Notre-Dame became a theatre of power and Napoleon declared himself Emperor. David spent three years weaving two hundred portraits into one breathtaking whole.
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Paris
Room 702 · Salle Daru · Level 1 · Denon wing
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