Passage of the Iron Gates in Algeria by DAUZATS, Adrien

DAUZATS, Adrien

(b. 1804, Bordeaux, d. 1868, Paris)

	Passage of the Iron Gates in Algeria 1840 Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans
The expedition of Iron Gates was a military operation of the French army in October 1839 to establish a land link between Algiers and Constantine, through the Bibans Mountains, called "the Gates of iron."