Images of Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars dominated French visual culture in the thirty or so years following his fall from power in 1815. This presentation examines a number of the most common themes found in these images: Napoleon as a defender of the Revolution; Napoleon as fallible and human, appearing haggard, portly, dispirited, or in any number of other deficient emotional and physical states; and Napoleon as the object of a pseudo-religious veneration. It will also examine the emergence, in the same period, of images exploring the physical and psychological trauma resulting from the unprecedented violence of the Napoleonic wars.