A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

Antoine-Jean Gros

Date
1817
Medium
lithograph
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gros specialized in large battle paintings memorializing the feats of Napoleon (1769-1821). This Orientalist military subject records Napoleon's campaign in Egypt against the British Empire. It also demonstrates how spontaneously the artist could draw on the lithograph stone.

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