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May 8 2011

Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau

French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau

This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808.  Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting.  Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses.  Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career.  His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism.  He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.

Reproduction for sale on Zazzle