# Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GROS, Antoine-Jean]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm ## Commentary Gros was filled with enthusiasm for the events of the Napoleonic era, for he was just 18 when the revolution broke out. This and Bonaparte's rise to imperial power were to be the formative influences on his work. In 1797, when Napoleon was still a general, he gave the young Gros his first commission. It was Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole. On 17 November 1796 Napoleon led his troops in the battle at Arcole and he won in three days. In the dynamic handling of the subject, all traces of David's Neoclassicism have gone. Seeing himself depicted as full of stormy energy, but determined and controlled as well, Napoleon must have felt flattered. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 38 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/mozart/mozart\_k\_551.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony in C Major \(Jupiter-Symphony\) K 551</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole]() - [Christine Boyer]() - [Madame Pasteur]() - [Napoleon Bonaparte on the Battlefield of Eylau, 1807]() - [Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-stricken at Jaffa]() - [Portrait of Françoise Simonnier and her Daughter]() - [Portrait of Madame Récamier]() - [Portrait of the Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand]() - [Sappho at Leucate]() - [The Battle of Abukir]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()