/internal/media/dispatcher/159227/fullView of the French Army’s Temporary Bridge to the Lobau (Nocturne with Moonlight)1810[Joseph Rebell]Joseph RebellOil on canvas After being appointed director of the Imperial Picture Gallery in the Upper Belvedere, Joseph Rebell had the summer palace converted into a museum. He established a restoration department and expanded the presentation of the permanent collection to include the “Modern School” - a section devoted entirely to contemporary art. In addition, he served as a professor of landscape painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. There, Rebell encouraged students to work outdoors directly from nature, influencing the development of a new, realistic style of landscape painting in Austria. This painting, along with three other works in the Belvedere’s collection, was created for Emperor Napoleon. When the French troops entrenched themselves in the Lobau floodplain prior to the Battle of Wagram, numerous bridges were built on Napoleon’s orders to connect the central military training ground, erected on the island, with the surrounding countryside.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/103651/rdf