About This Artwork

Jean Léon Gérôme
French, 1824-1904
Cast by: Siot Fondeur
French, Paris

Napoleon Entering Cairo, 1897

Bronze
39.4 x 43.2 cm (15 1/2 x 17 in.)
Siot fondeur Paris on long side of base (to Napoleon's right).
J.L. Gérome on long side of base (to Napoleon's left).
M161 on short side of base (back).
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1988.36.8

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, "The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited," 10 January - 9 June 1996 (extended to 9 July 1996), no. 16.

Publication History

Gerald M. Ackerman. The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Sotheby’s, 1986), p. 322, cat. S.38.

Jack Perry Brown, “The Return of the Salon: Jean Léon Gérome in the Art Institute,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 171 (ill.), 173.

Christie’s, Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (February 14, 1991), p. 35, no. 69 (ill.).

Ownership History

Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.