The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit

25 juin 1807) is an 1808 history painting by the French artist Adolphe Roehn.

[1][2] It depicts the scene on 25 June 1807 when Napoleon met with Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the middle of the River Neman.

They began the negotiations that led to the Peace of Tilsit, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Conspicuously absent were the Prussians, Alexander's allies, who Napoleon relegated to a minor role in the proceedings despite the fact that Tilsit was in East Prussia.

Although in reality the meeting was coreographed so that the two rulers arrived on the raft at the same time, the painting shows Napoleon waiting for the Russian in a position of ascendency.