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A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

1817
(French, 1771–1835)
France, 19th century
lithograph
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1940.1117
Catalogue raisonné: Béraldi Vol.VII.260.1
Location: not on view
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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.
A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

1817

Antoine-Jean Gros

(French, 1771–1835)
France, 19th century

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