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A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
Antoine-Jean Gros1817
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
- Creator: Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835)
- Date Created: 1817
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1117
- Medium: lithograph
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Accession Number: 1940.1117
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