# Napoleon and his Staff [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEISSONIER, Jean-Louis-Ernest]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on panel, 17 x 18 cm ## Commentary This panel was commissioned by the fourth Marquess of Hertford who insisted on the insertion of Napoleon's mameluke with his red and white cap in the background. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 51 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/beethoven/beethoven\_symphony3.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 \(Eroica\) in E Flat major op. 55 \(1803\)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Mounted Cavalier]() - [Musketeer]() - [Portrait of Marquesa de Manzanedo]() - [Street Scene near Antibes]() - [The Barricade]() - [The Barricade \(Remembrance of Civil War\)]() - [The Campaign in France 1814]() - [The Chess Game]() - [The Portrait of a Sergeant]() - [Young Man with a Book]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()