2007.20: Napoleon at Pont d'Arcole

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.20

People

copy after Antoine-Jean Gros, French (Paris 1771 - 1835 Meudon)

Title

Napoleon at Pont d'Arcole

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/316092

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on cream wove paper stretch-mounted to paper-covered panel

Dimensions

53.8 x 45.4 cm (21 3/16 x 17 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: verso of board: [printed, in cartouche:] No. / 133 / Rue du Coq-Honoré, au 1er / COIFFIER, Md. de Couleurs / [ ] les Couleurs fines pour tous les genres de / [ ] les Toiles imprimées, des Papiers a dessin / [ ] et généralement tout ce qui est nécess- / [ ] Peinture et au Dessin dans tous les genres / Fabrique les Crayons noirs de Velours, / avantageusement connus pour le Dessin. / [ ] le nétoyage et la / restauration des anciens Tableaux , les / Encadremens et le coll[ ] / des Dessins. / Dieu &[?] / A PARIS
• inscription: on paper attached to verso of board, brown ink: This drawing represents Buonaparte leading the / attack of the Austrian army at the bridge of Arcola / in 1796--after the repeated repulse there of the French / troops--It was made in 1797 or 1798 for his / eldest sister Elisa Baciocchi--Having heard from / the painter that Lt. General Sir Charles Stuart K.B. / a great admirer of the military genius of her brother / Napoleon, was [ ] to obtain a likeness of / him and feeling grateful for services which / General Stuart had been able to render to the / Buonaparte family in Corsica, during his / Command there in 1794, she desired that this / drawing should be sent to him. / This to the best of my recollection was the history of the drawing which was given by / Anne-Louisa, Lady Stuart, Sir C. Stuart's / widow. -- C.S. 1867

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William S. Lieberman

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.20

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William S. Lieberman, Figures and Faces: 19th and 20th Century European Master Drawings from the Lester and Joan Avnet Collection, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, 1968), no. 16, repr.

Exhibition History

• Figures and Faces: 19th and 20th Century European Master Drawings from the Lester and Joan Avnet Collection, Unknown Venues, 01/01/1968 - 12/31/1968

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