A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help (1817): Art, History and Details
A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1817, lithograph. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help (1817) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
- Date: 1817
- Creator attribution: Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Type: Print
- Technique: lithograph
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1940.1117
Collection credit
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
Further reading listed by the museum
- Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Chef de mamelucks à cheval, appelant du secours.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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