# General view

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PERCIER, Charles](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/percier-charles-re265082b2258b4>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

Evocation of Imperial Rome was a prime purpose of the commemorative structures in the Napoleonic era, most of which were dedicated to Austerlitz. Constructed by Percier and Fontaine in the cour d&#39;honneur of the Louvre in 1806-08, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel - crowned with the Byzantine bronze horses plundered from San Marco in Venice - borrows directly from the triumphal arch of Septimus Severus in Rome.

## Related artworks

- [Bedroom of Napoleon&#39;s Wife, Josephine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/percier-charles-re265082b2258b4/bedroom-of-napoleons-wife-josephine-re7ad60a418e688>)
- [General view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/percier-charles-re265082b2258b4/general-view-ra2d494ff1925fa>)
- [Library](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/percier-charles-re265082b2258b4/library-rd25c8f286ccb43>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)