Word: napoleons
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...business, confined mainly to the rich, he made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder for the Louvre. What he saw comes out in his work, in an unpretentious and conversational way, in the poses of figures quoted from all manner of old masters and antique statuary. It even pervades the many pornographic drawings he did to stimulate...