# A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

- By: Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835)
- Date: 1817
- Medium: lithograph
- Classification: Print
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1117)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1117/1940.1117_web.jpg
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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.