Passage du Mont St. Bernard (Napoleon's Army Crossing the St. Bernard Pass)
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 35.8 x 41.6 cm (14 1/8 x 16 3/8 in.) sheet: 42.1 x 58.3 cm (16 9/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1994.58.10
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault, born Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, France, into a prosperous family—his father a lawyer turned tobacco merchant and his mother from a line of growers—moved to Paris around 1797. Displaying early artistic promise, recognized by painter Jean-Louis Laneuville, he began formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, mastering English sporting art...