Napoleon in the wilderness

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Dimensions: 46,3 x 38,1 сm.
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

The female figure is Leonora Carrington, an artist and one of Ernst’s lovers. In this picture, Napoleon symbolizes the her sense of decay before the beginning of a new life. In the same year, Ernst left Carrington and married Peggy Guggenheim, an American art patron.