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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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Two brigade leaders, honoured by Bonaparte after the battle are also shown. In front of Junot, brigade leader Paul Desnoyers [ fr ] is seen riding a Norman bay horse, and the future General Duvivier rides a black horse, charging at the head of his dragoons at the top right of the canvas. [ 8 ]
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 ...
Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, 1796. Joséphine worked with and sought out the works of many artists throughout her lifetime. In the area of painters she mainly was a collector of paintings but she was painted by and worked with several artists such as Jacques-Louis David and François Gérard.