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Barye was commissioned to design a relief showing a Napoleon III on horseback dressed as a Roman emperor. The relief was installed above the Carrousel entrance to the Louvre in 1868. Two years later, after the fall of the emperor, the relief was removed; it is now preserved in the Musée nationale du château in Compiègne, outside Paris. On this sheet, Barye has traced the outlines of his design.

and a bronze relief with the equestrian portrait of Napoleon III as emperor, à l'antique (1861, destroyed; presentation drawing, Musée du Louvre, Paris, office of the architect-in-chief). ... Barye received two important government commissions for provincial dynastic equestrian monuments: the imperial Napoleon I surmounting the Bonaparte

In 1862, the town of Grenoble commissioned Barye to produce a life-size equestrian statue of Napoleon for the Place d'Armes. The aim was to commemorate Napoleon's arrival in the city in 1815, during the Hundred Days. However, the mayor of Grenoble was unhappy with Barye's proposal for the statue and eventually organised a competition.