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Bonaparte at the Pont d’Arcole (French: Bonaparte au Pont d’Arcole) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1796 by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros.It depicts an episode during the Battle of Arcole in November 1796, with General Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops to storm the bridge.
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery: Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole: 1796: 130 × 94 cm: Palace of Versailles: The Death of Timophanes: 1798: 44.4 × 57.6 cm: The Louvre: Portrait of Christine Boyer: c. 1800: 214 × 134 cm: The Louvre: The Battle of Nazareth: 1801: 136.1 x 196.4 cm: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes: Sappho at Leucate: 1801: 122 ...
Similarly for his equestrian portrait of Bonaparte (Château de Malmaison), from 1803, from the same time, Gros used the same fisionomy previously depicted in his painting of Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, also oriented to the left and lit in the same way. The main difference was in his treatment of the hair, depicted shorter.
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The pont d'Arcole was built to the plans of Alphonse Oudry (1819–1869), retired Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées and his partner Nicolas Cadiat; [2] the structure was innovative in that it was the first unsupported bridge across the Seine to be made entirely in wrought iron rather than cast iron. The low arch, only lightly cambered, was ...
Here is a short history lesson. French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died 203 years ago May 5, but his legendarily petite privates were last known to be in the hands of an Englewood, NJ, resident.
Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole in November 1796 by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1796. Battle of the Pyramids , July 21, 1798, by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1810 "From the top of those pyramids, forty centuries are contemplating you."