Who are these women? And what are they reading? Artist Jacques-Louis David painted this double portrait to show the individual personalities of sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte. If their last name sounds familiar, it’s because they were nieces of Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes, that Napoleon Bonaparte. They embrace each other while reading a letter from their father Joseph Bonaparte, who was exiled in the United States. If you look close enough, you can even see that the letter comes from Philadelphia, where Joseph lived at the time. #GetArtHistory #Paintings #HistoricalMoments #Napoleon #philadelphia