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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.
Following her to Milan, Gros was well received by her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte. [7] After Gros painted the scene Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, Bonaparte gave him the post of inspecteur aux revues, which allowed Gros to follow the army. In 1797, Gros was charged with selecting the spoils for the Louvre. [7]
Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole; Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa; Bonaparte, First Consul (Gros) E.
Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole, by A.-J. Gros, (1797), Château de Versailles. On 1 November, the Friaul Corps began crossing the Piave. [8] Bonaparte elected to attack the Austrians on the Brenta and called Augereau and Macquard east to join Masséna. In the Second Battle of Bassano on 6 November, the Austrians held off Bonaparte's attacks ...
Jean-Antoine Gros (1732–1790) was a French painter, father of Antoine-Jean Gros.. Born in Toulouse, Gros married Félicité Labille in 1764, becoming the brother-in-law of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
In the 1927 film Napoleon, young general Bonaparte is portrayed as a heroic visionary. On the other hand, he has been occasionally reduced to a stock character, depicted as short and bossy, sometimes comically so. [51] Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835) witnessed the Battle of Arcole (1796) and painted a portrait that pleased Napoleon. After ...
Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole; Bonaparte Before the Sphinx; ... Bonaparte, First Consul (Gros) C. The Congress of Erfurt; The Coronation of Napoleon; D.
Marshal Joachim Murat had several equestrian portraits made of his likeness. Gros knew him well, having met in Milan during the first Italian campaign in 1796. Murat commissioned him the large painting The Battle of Aboukir, which was exhibited at the Salon of French Artists of 1806, before being transferred to the Royal Palace of Naples, where Murat moved in the Summer of 1808, when he was ...