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Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (also called Napoleon Crossing the Alps, despite the existence of another, more well-known painting with that name) is an 1848–1850 oil-on-canvas portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, by French artist Paul Delaroche. The painting depicts Bonaparte leading his army through the Alps on a mule, a journey Napoleon and his army of soldiers made in the spring of 1800, in an attempt to surprise the Austrian army in Italy.
The two main versions of this painting that
Alps is the Great St Bernard Pass, used as far back as the Bronze Age and showing traces of a Roman road. Napoleon crossed the Alps here in May 1800, depicted in an idealised view by Jacques-Louis David in "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" and, less idealised, by Hyppolyte Delaroche in "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps".
Notable examples.
- Alpine Pass Route
- Garibaldi Provincial Park
- Mount Torment
- Tatoosh Range
- Valhalla Provincial Park
- Vratsata Gorge