9 August 2019

Jacques Louis David. Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (‘Napoleon am Großen St. Bernhard’), 1803 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna).



Oil on canvas: 275 x 232 cm(!). The fourth of five versions painted between 1801 and 1805. Also known as ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’. The iconic view of Napoleon and his army crossing the Great Saint-Bernard Pass in 1800. Original first version now in the Musée de Malmaison

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