| Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler | |
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| Artist | Edwin Landseer |
| Year | 1820 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 189 cm× 237 cm(74 in× 93 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller is an 1820 oil painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer. It depicts a view in the Alps with Saint Bernard dogs coming to the assistance of a stranger, travelling through the pass who is buried in snow through the effects of an avalanche. [1]
It was produced very early in his career at a time when the eighteen-year-old Landseer had never visited the Swiss setting of the scene. It was displayed at the 1820 exhibition of the British Institution, where it was widely praised. [2] Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. [3]