FIGURE 30 Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims at...

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Description: Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799)

TitleBonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799)

Creator nameGros, Antoine-Jean

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1804

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions209.375 x 283.375 in. (532 x 720 cm.)

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062570

Accession numberINV 5064; MR 1782

SubjectsPlague in artNapoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Soldiers in artHistory painting, French

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9. Last Rites

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~Girodet died in 1824, at the age of fifty-seven, from a tumor of the bladder. The onset of his final crisis was sudden; it came so quickly that the painter was...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.217-245

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.10

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Chapter subject tags:Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceBelley, Jean-Baptiste, 1747-1805Portrait painting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, French--19th century

II. The Exemplum Virtutis

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...

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Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-106

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

Chapter 2: Plague

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France

In his memoirs recounting the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt and Syria, Jacques-François Miot describes the French army’s bloody massacre of surrendered Arab prisoners after the siege of Jaffa...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.65-103

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.003

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Chapter subject tags:Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--HistoryNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--EgyptGros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835History painting, French--19th centuryColonialism--France--HistoryPlague in art--France--19th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Caricatures and cartoons--France--19th century

1. Visual Participation by Proxy in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Katie Hornstein

Picturing War in France, 1792–1856

~An extraordinary engraving entitled The Triumph of the French Armies, published in 1797, represents four French army generals in the process of reconfiguring a monumental map of Europe (fig. 3). The map’s pieces are seized by four French...

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Katie Hornstein

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00094.004

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Chapter subject tags:Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799History painting, French--19th centuryFrance--History, Military--19th centuryBattles in art--France--19th centuryPrints, French--19th centuryPrints, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835

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