The Reason Why Napoleon Always Hid His Hand

Not Just The English

Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni – Wikimedia Commons – Charles Willson Peale – Wikimedia Commons

The “hand-in-waistcoat” pose wasn’t just adopted by English artists and the English men of high society. Other artists further afield also began to catch on to the craze.

Prominent artists Francisco de Goya, French Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, and Swiss Jean-Étienne Liotard also began to produce portraits where their subjects held the famous stance.

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