Napoleon Entering Cairo

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1900

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Léon Gérôme
Title: Napoleon Entering Cairo
Place: France (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1895–1905
Medium: Gilt bronze
Dimensions: 38.1 × 43.2 cm (15 × 17 in.) (without base)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1990.581
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Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Sotheby’s, 1986), p. 322, cat. S.38.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 (National Gallery of Canada, 1994), pp. 464–65, no. 310.
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée catalogue raisonné is à jour Les Orientalistes 4 (Paris: ACR Édition, 2000), p. 394–95, cat. S.38.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections,” 22 July – 17 September 1972 [no cat.].

Sold, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 19 January 1935, lot 372, as “Gilded Bronze Equestrian Statuette,” to George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1990.

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