Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller


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.
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. Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.