Death mask of Napoleon

The death mask of Napoleon was made on his face the day after his death by Doctor Antommarchi and the English surgeon Burton (Napoleon died May 5th 1821).

The face was then, according to witnesses, changed and sagging. On May 8th, was drawn the first test whose facial block would be removed the following night by Mrs. Bertrand (spouse of the Grand Marshal) and Antommarchi, leaving to the doctor only the peripheral parts, skulls, ears, etc. Antommarchi took the precious object back to France. Obviously, the molding he owned was incomplete and he had to reconstruct the shape of the skull; This explains the discordance of this form with the known portraits of the Emperor, as well as the absence of the ears, replaced by an imprecise form.

Dali asked for permission to mold the mask to the family who held it, he transformed it by making horns appear on the eyelids, forehead and chin.
He had found an analogy between the strength of rhinoceroses, a kind of locomotive, as Napoleon had in his time: he did not stop working all his life.