01 Work, The art of War, Antoine-Jean Gros' Le combat de Nazareth/ The battle of Nazareth, with Footnotes

Antoine-Jean Gros

Le combat de Nazareth/ The battle of Nazareth, c. 1801

Oil on canvas

136,2 x 196,6 x 4.6 cm

Musée d'arts de Nantes

The scene represents the end of the fight where General Junot commanded the five hundred French, victorious at Nazareth, over ten thousand Turks. We see Junot a little to the left, riding a fiery white horse and slashing an enemy, after having brought down another with a pistol shot. Brigade leader Desnoyers gallops past the general and gives orders to the infantrymen who repel a furious charge from the Turks. In the background on the right, brigade leader Duvivier's dragoons carry out a charge. On the left, on the plain, enemies in defeat. On the front of the composition, numerous episodes of isolated combat; corpses, wounded people, horses. On the horizon, the silhouette of Mount Tabor; opposite, the village of Cana. Oil on canvas: plain weave, fine and regular threads, tight weave. More on this painting

Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824.

 

Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution. Forced to leave France, Gros moved to Genoa. His portrait of the French commander Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Arcole (1796) brought Gros to public attention and gained the patronage of Napoleon.

 

After traveling with Napoleon's army for several years, he returned to Paris in 1799. In addition to producing several large paintings of battles and other events in Napoleon's life, Gros was a successful portraitist. More on Antoine-Jean Gros

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