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Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau
Antoine-Jean Gros · 1808
A large-scale oil painting by Antoine-Jean Gros commissioned to commemorate the Battle of Eylau, notable for its depiction of the human cost of war.
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Commissioned after the pyrrhic 1807 battle, this work is considered the first official Napoleonic image to admit the devastating human cost of his campaigns. The foreground is dominated by frozen, suffering corpses, which serves to balance the traditionally heroic presentation of the Emperor.
The painting was completed in 1808 and is currently held in the collection of the Musée du Louvre. It depicts Napoleon visiting the battlefield on February 9, 1807, the day after the bloody conflict between the French Grande Armée and the Russian Empire.
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