Napoleon's Army in the Alps
date: label: Date made
content: 1833
name: label: graphic artist
content: Bellangé, Hippolyte
notes: label: Description
content: This lithograph, <I>Passage de l’armé française à; l’hospice du Mont Saint-Bernard 15 Mai 1800</I> by Hippolyte Bellangé, shows Napoleon’s daring crossing of the Alps via the Great St. Bernard Pass on the Italian-Swiss border with his army of 40,000 men. It was published with eleven other military views, including the Battle of Marengo, in a portfolio. Entitled <I>Souvenirs militaires de la Republique, du Consulat et de l’Empire (Military Memories of the Republic, the Consulate, and the Empire)</I>, the firm of Gihaut introduced the album in 1834. It was the last but one in an annual series that Bellangé inaugurated in 1823. The prints in these portfolios included military views and some genre scenes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Battle Scenes
label: Subject
content: European History
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Military
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.15317
label: catalog number
content: 15317
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19 cm x 30.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 12 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 19.5 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 11/16 in x 9 5/8 in