Jacques Louis David Napoleon Crossing The Alps 1801 05

It was one of five david painted.

Jacques louis david napoleon crossing the alps 1801 05. Jacques louis david aug 30 1748 dec 29 1825. In 1808 david painted the enormous the coronation of the emperor napoleon i and the crowing of the empress josephine in notre dame cathedral on december 2 1804 1808 20 8 x 32 1 more simply known as le. Jacques louis david napoleon crossing the alps 1801 oil on canvas napoleon crossing the alps was painted in 1801 by jacques louis david napoleon crossing the alps is often critiqued as a dramatic and lifeless work of art marking the end of david s free artistic career and the beginning of his career as napoleon s official portraitist. Napoleon crossing the alps 1802 jacques louis david was a highly influential french painter in the neoclassical style considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

In jacques louis david s napoleon bonaparte first consul crossing the alps at great st. Initially commissioned by the king of spain the composition. Napoleon crossing the alps at the st bernard pass 20th may 1800 was created in 1801 by jacques louis david in neoclassicism style. Bernard pass 20 may 1800 of 1803 a uniformed napoleon sits comfortably astride a wild eyed rearing horse on a snow covered mountainside his bright red cape whipped by the wind.

The king of spain was the one who initially commissioned the painting. In napoleon crossing the alps 1801 05 which he did on the back of a donkey the flamboyant general is astride a rearing stallion. Napoleon crossing the alps also known as napoleon at the saint bernard pass or bonaparte crossing the alps. However david s portrait of napoleon crossing.

In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity heightened feeling. Jacques louis david napoleon crossing the alps or bonaparte at the st bernard pass 1800 01 oil on canvas 102 87 260 221 cm chateau de malmaison rueil malmaison background completed in four months from october 1800 to january 1801 it signals the dawning of a new century. This is the belvedere version of napoleon crossing the alps also known as napoleon at the saint bernard pass or bonaparte crossing the alps which are the titles given to the five versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of napoleon bonaparte painted by the french artist jacques louis david between 1801 and 1805.