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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.
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Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery: Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole: 1796: 130 × 94 cm: Palace of Versailles: Portrait of the Maistre Sisters: 1796: 43.2 x 31.2: Art Institute of Chicago: 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: ...
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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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.
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 ...
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 ...