Jacques-Louis David, sketches of Napoleon, 1797. Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Palais Masséna, Nice. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images
Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon, title page of ‘The Description of Egypt’, 1809. Photograph: akg-images / Pietro Baguzzi
Charles-Joseph Minard, Graph to illustrate the successive losses in men of the French army in the Russian Campaign of 1812–13, pub. 1869. Photograph: © Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Sèvres Manufactory after Antoine Denis Chaudet, Bust of Emperor Napoleon I, 1806. Bibliothèque Marmottan, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images GKofVKb81wdlSS7epN71vEe0VWRBoQ60vR8AtJLz+M4SYQRJh/YAVKOFs4hpB1Bv