Napoleon in Waterloo. Having your hand portrayed under your waistcoat was a fashion of the time
Several times I have wondered why Napoleon Bonaparte he had often been portrayed with his hand under his waistcoat, exactly at stomach height, so I did a little research on it.
Some time ago, somewhere, I had read that the motivation lay in the gastric disorders that afflicted the Emperor of the French for most of his life and that according to some led him to death prematurely, instead it would be a much more trivial fact: a simple pose. No tics and in short, no pain, just a very common habit among those who were portrayed in the epoch between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. information you can find it here:https://www.focus.it/cultura/storia/9-cose-che-forse-non-sai-su-napoleone-bonaparte? .