French Troops Fording the Magra

French Troops Fording the Magra is an 1847 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. Combining elements of landscape and history painting. It depicts forces of the French Republic crossing the River Magra near Sarzana in 1796 during Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Stanfield was known for his Romantic landscapes.
The picture was possibly commissioned by George Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1847 at the National Gallery in London. It was subsequently also exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris and at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857. It is today in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been acquired A preparatory oil sketch for the painting is now in the York Art Gallery in England.