Artista: Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche
Encontro: 1850
Tamanho: 21450 x 27940 cm
museu: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Técnica: Oil On Canvas
Napoleon crossed the Alps in May 1800 and in June won his great victory at Marengo in Italy over the Austrians. This painting is a sober and accurate record of the event showing the mule and peasant who actually took the leader over the Great St Bernard Pass, trailed by his troops on the mountain-side behind. Delaroche specialised in painting momentous historical events as if they were scenes from everyday life. This picture was intended as a corrective to the flamboyant, propagandist rendering of the same event by Napoleon’s own artists. Another version of this composition, in no way superior to the Walker
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