Battlefield with Soldier on Horseback (Napoleon?)
baron Antoine Jean Gros
ca.1810
Medium
Pen and black ink on beige antique laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 7 3/8 x 13 1/2 in. (18.7 x 34.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2008
Accession Number
2008.473
Tags
HorsesNapoleon I
About the Artist
baron Antoine Jean Gros · 1771–1835
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835) was born in Paris to the miniature painter Jean-Antoine Gros and the artist Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand. Displaying prodigious talent from childhood, he began drawing under his father's tutelage at age six. In 1785, at just fourteen, Gros entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical master, while attending classes at the Collège M...