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This piece was prompted by dou_ble_you asking me if I had got into product placement, with this other recent piece: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6799027542/in/photostream/. But, actually, this was the piece I made for Napoleon Cognac.

Credit: After the painting by Horace Vernet, "Napoleon at Wagram" (Galerie des Batailles, Versailles).

I refomatted this piece to conform to the dimension of a larger series I am currently producing. For the rest of the series, see the set 'Humanity & Our Creator': www.flickr.com/photos/walford/sets/72157628988426955/with... A few of them can be seen lining the wall of my workspace, here: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6798303800/in/photostream

I decided to place a piece of trompe l'oeil on this bland little coffee table, just to intrigue the eye of bored visitors to my lair.

Made in friendly visual dialog with dou_ble_you, in response to the piece to dedicated to me, see his piece, "Careful With That Axe Eugene, a little keepsake for John Walford," as can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/dou_ble_you/6930063651/

I decided to give the building a more stable roof, in case of any stray fiddlers are tempted to go up there, and to add a cast of characters to the street in front, which also improved the general lighting of the scene. An earlier version can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6783516672/in/photostream/, and the original version here: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6854956747/in/photostream/.

A couple of the rooms inside can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6879380929/in/photostream/ and here: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6864049373/in/photostream/