Nicolas Maureau

En majesté (In Majesty)

2023 — 2025

En majesté unfolds as a gallery of portraits in which power is revealed through a lens at once contemporary and timeless. Ambivalent historical figures are transposed into our own era, stripped of their ceremonial attributes, yet keeping a posture, a gesture, an accessory evocative of their status and symbolic legacy.

Ironic and critical, En majesté questions how we construct our figures of authority and our political myths. By laying power bare, the series exposes its raw mechanics: assurance, authority, solitude, vulnerability and absurdity. En majesté does not merely replay history, it confronts it with the present to better decipher its iconicity.

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Napoléon, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Napoléon Napoleon
2025 · 130 × 97 cm
Théodose, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Théodose Theodosius
2024 · 130 × 97 cm
Diane de Poitiers, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Diane de Poitiers
2024 · 130 × 97 cm
Marie-Antoinette, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Marie-Antoinette Marie Antoinette
2024 · 130 × 97 cm
Darius le grand, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Darius le grand Darius the Great
2024 · 130 × 97 cm
Catherine de Médicis, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Catherine de Médicis Catherine de' Medici
2023 · 130 × 97 cm
Zénobie, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Zénobie Zenobia
2023 · 130 × 97 cm
Caligula, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Caligula
2023 · 130 × 97 cm
Catherine la grande, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Catherine la grande Catherine the Great
2023 · 130 × 97 cm
Antoine et Cléopâtre, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Antoine et Cléopâtre Antony and Cleopatra
2023 · 130 × 97 cm
Alexandre le Grand, oil on canvas by Nicolas Maureau Alexandre le Grand Alexander the Great
2025 · 130 × 97 cm