# Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GROS, Antoine-Jean]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 134 x 104 cm ## Commentary Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole c. 1796 Oil on canvas, 134 x 104 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Among the major names in French painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Gros was probably the only one who remained loyal to the national school's traditional values, seen in the work's dense structures and elaborate colour scheme. Thanks to these qualities, the conventional heroic portrait acquires an emotional charge that foreshadows Romanticism. The work's persuasiveness is heightened because Gros witnessed the event when while accompanying Napoleon during his Italian campaign in 1796. ## 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]()