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. ^[1]

Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler
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.

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]