The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, painted in 1810 by Louis-Léopold Boilly, is a witty, densely populated genre scene recording the crowds who flocked to the Louvre's Salon of 1808 to see Jacques-Louis David's monumental "Coronation of Napoleon" — the single most anticipated painting of the era. Rather than paint the coronation itself, Boilly turned his attention to the spectators: fashionable Parisians of every type, craning, gossiping, and posturing before the era's great history painting.
Boilly was the era's sharpest chronicler of Parisian middle-class life, and this canvas doubles as social satire and as an affectionate document of how ordinary people actually experienced the art of their day — a rare meta-commentary on spectatorship itself, painted two years after the event it depicts.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1810 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 24 1/4 x 32 1/2 in. (61.6 x 82.6 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Neoclassicism |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
