Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille D'Eylau - Christopher Prendergast - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=b0yalwi1HDMC&pg=PA3

This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of…