Great St Bernard Pass
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The Great St Bernard Pass is the third highest road pass in Switzerland, at an elevation of 2,469 m. It connects Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland with Aosta in the region Aosta Valley i
View of the pass and hospice from Great St Bernard Lake with Mont Vélan in background
View of the pass from the international border. A Swiss Customs post is visible on the left
Great St Bernard Hospice at the top of the Great St Bernard Pass, occupying both sides of the modern road. The old Roman road, serving as hiking path, is visible on the left.
St Bernard dog with barrel
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805. Initially commissioned b
Great St Bernard Pass
…the Bronze Age and surviving traces of a Roman road. In 1800, Napoleon's army used the pass to enter Italy, an event depicted in Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass and Paul Delaroche's Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, both notable oil paintings. Having been bypassed by easier and more practical routes, particularly…
David Napoleon crossing the Alps Malmaison 2
Second version, now located in Charlottenburg Palace
First Versailles version
David's unfinished portrait of Napoleon from 1798