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Woman with a Veil
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
c. 1891
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 60.5 x 32.7 cm (23 13/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Many of Gérôme’s best known works reflect the 19th-century European fascination with the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa, which manifested in Orientalist works like this sculpture depicting a woman adjusting her veil. Multiple versions of this sculpture exist, including some with marble and gold additions.
