Lion on the Watch

Cleveland Museum of Art

Lion on the Watch

Jean-Léon GérômeLinkedCulture matchlcp-c9f92774214b

Date
c. 1885
Medium
oil on wood panel
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
124256

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In addition to his fascination with the classical past, Gérôme was one of the leading painters of "orientalist" subjects-exotic and romantic themes inspired by Napoleonic adventures abroad, romantic literature, and European colonialism. From 1855, Gérôme travelled regularly in Turkey, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Long fascinated by African animals, he sketched lions in the Paris zoo as a student and later hunted them on safari in North Africa.

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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. F. W. Gehring in memory of her husband, F. W. Gehring
Provenance
Frederick Gehring, Cleveland. Given to the CMA in 1945. | (Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Frederick Gehring in 1904)

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