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Napoleon Crossing the Alps (French: Napoléon franchissant le col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) is the first of five oil painting versions created between 1800 and 1801 by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The original version, measuring 261 x 221 cm, is currently exhibited at Château de Malmaison.The work idealizes Napoleon’s crossing of the Alps with the French army in May 1800 during his campaign into Italy. Although the actual crossing occurred several days later and took place with Napoleon ridin

Pentimento is a term in painting that refers to a situation in which an artist changes the original sketch or composition of a work and then covers it with new layers, but over time, the underlying image becomes visible again. The term is of Italian origin, derived from the verb pentirsi, meaning “repentance,” and it denotes the visual traces resulting from the artist’s modification of a previously made drawing【1】. Pentimento typically appears in oil paintings and provides important clues about