Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Jacques-Louis David

Painted

1801

Collection

Belvedere, Vienna

It commemorates Napoleon's crossing of the Great St Bernard Pass into Italy in 1800. He actually rode a mule, but asked to be shown "calm on a fiery horse", and David carved BONAPARTE into the rocks beside the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne. Five versions were painted; this one belongs to the Belvedere in Vienna.

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