# The Empress Josephine Kneeling with Mme de la Rochefoucauld and Mme de la Valette [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAVID, Jacques-Louis]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Black crayon and graphite, 274 x 391 mm ## Commentary Working on such a large scale with such a huge cast to manipulate, David resorted to Renaissance working practices to plan and organize the Consecration. As well as drawings of Notre Dame, studies for groups and individuals and details of uniforms and regalia, he also made full-scale cartoons of some figures. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the French People Offering the Crown and Sceptre to the King]() - [Andromache Mourning Hector]() - [Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy]() - [Antiochus and Stratonica]() - [Belisarius Receiving Alms]() - [Bonaparte, Calm on a Fiery Steed, Crossing the Alps \(detail\)]() - [Bonaparte, Calm on a Fiery Steed, Crossing the Alps]() - [Brutus]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine]() - [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I \(detail\)]() - [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()