A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835)
1817
- Medium
- lithograph
- Classification
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
