File:Jacques-Louis David 007.jpg
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Summary
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
equestrian portrait |
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| Description |
English: Napoleon in a red cloak mounted on a chestnut horse. The tack is simpler than in the original version, lacking the martingale, and the girth is grey-blue. There are traces of snow on the ground. Napoleon's features are sunken with the faint hint of a smile. |
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| Depicted people |
Napoleon |
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| Date |
May 1801 |
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| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 271 cm (106.6 in); width: 232 cm (91.3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
GK I 913 |
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| Object history |
Français : La deuxième version pour le château de Château de Saint-Cloud (1801) est exposée avec la première au Louvre. Accrochée au palais en 1802, d'abord dans le salon de Mars, ensuite dans la salle du trône, elle est enlevée en juin 1814 par les soldats prussiens du général von Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher qui l’offre au roi de Prusse Frédéric-Guillaume III Celui-ci la fait installer au château de Charlottenburg en 1816 (fr:wp) |
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| Inscriptions |
bottom left, center: Bonaparte, Annibal, Karolus Magnus
The picture is signed L.DAVID YEAR IX. |
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| Notes |
Deutsch: Historienmalerei und Porträt |
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| References |
Fotothek Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten RKDimages, Art-work number 221479, as Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps at the Grand Saint Bernard, June 1801, height: 260 cm (102.3 in); width: 226 cm (88.9 in) Spiegel 1983 |
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| Source/Photographer | The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
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This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
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| current | 03:11, 3 January 2024 | 2,024 × 2,380 (1.35 MB) | Oursana | Reverted to version as of 15:40, 2 January 2012 (UTC) |
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