# General view

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontaine-pierre-franois-lonard-rc5ff07a2224036/general-view-r66d0eff9a165d8>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [FONTAINE, Pierre-François-Léonard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontaine-pierre-franois-lonard-rc5ff07a2224036>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

Evocation of Imperial Rome was a prime purpose of the commemorative structures in the Napoleonic ear, 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/fontaine-pierre-franois-lonard-rc5ff07a2224036/bedroom-of-napoleons-wife-josephine-rc8002b109972b9>)
- [General view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontaine-pierre-franois-lonard-rc5ff07a2224036/general-view-r7c8f529507bdbd>)
- [Library](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontaine-pierre-franois-lonard-rc5ff07a2224036/library-rf956e2b4da0a6d>)

## Attribution

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