About the Artwork
Battle on a Bridge
19th century
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French
French
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 14 5/8 × 18 3/4 inches (37.1 × 47.6 cm) Framed: 19 1/4 × 23 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (48.9 × 59.1 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner
52.197
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
collection of Dr. William R. Valentiner (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Musée de Versailles ou tableaux de l'histoire de France. Exh. cat., Musée National de Versailles. Paris, 1850, opp. p. 69 and p. 70.
Du Seigneur, J. Appendice à la notice sur Horace Vernet, ses tableaux et ses lithographies, vol. 17. 1863, p. 348.
Ruutz Rees, J.E. Horace Vernet. London, 1880, p. 10.
Mauricheau-Beaupré, Ch. Versailles l'histoire et l'art. Versailles, 1949, p. 99.
Grigaut, P. French Painting From David to Courbet. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1950, p. 31, no. 48, [as Napolean on the Bridge of Lodi, and as by Horace Vernet].
Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 148, 169, no. 107 (ill.) [as "Napolean on the Bridge of Lodi" by Horace Vernet].
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French, Battle on a Bridge, 19th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 52.197.
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