FIGURE 18 Antoine-Jean Gros, Battle of Nazareth, 1801

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TitleBattle of Nazareth

Creator nameGros, Antoine-Jean

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1801

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions53 x 76.75 in. (135 x 195 cm.)

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsBattles in artHistory painting, FrenchBattlefieldsNapoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

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9. Last Rites

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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...

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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

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

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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

Related print edition pages: pp.9-49

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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