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Also Known As Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros
Born March 16, 1771 • Paris • France
Died June 26, 1835 (aged 64) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Napoleon Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa” • “Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau, February 1807”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Napoleon I
Napoleon Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa, oil on canvas by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804; in the Louvre, Paris.
Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau, February 1807
Napoleon I
Antoine-Jean Gros: Meeting Between Napoleon I and Francis I After the Battle of Austerlitz, 4 December 1805
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Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
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William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
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Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
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Théodore Rousseau
French artist
Alexandre Decamps
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Anne-Louis Girodet
French painter
Philip James de Loutherbourg
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“The Two Sisters,” oil painting by Théodore Chassériau, 1843; in the Louvre, Paris
Théodore Chassériau
French painter
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
Washington Allston
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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Frederic Edwin Church
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Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
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Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
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Moritz von Schwind
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Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
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