Napoleon, waiting for peace

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905

Napoleon, waiting for peace, 1905

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Napoleon, waiting for peace — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915.

Subjects: emperor of the french, i, portraits, paintings, napoleon.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.