Napoleon in the Wilderness

Max Ernst · 1941

This is Napoleon in the Wilderness — a painting by Max Ernst, nineteen forty-one. Oil on canvas — about 46 by 38 centimeters. You can pick out the carved figure.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 18 1/4 x 15" (46.3 x 38.1 cm) · Credit Purchase and exchange

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Untitled, Central Park South, New York

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Tiari, Sleeping Figure, Torso, Reclining Nude with Guitar, The Horse, Jeannette (V)

More by Max Ernst here: Birds above the Forest (Oiseaux au-dessus de la forêt), Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (Deux Enfants sont menacés par un rossignol), Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête)