Woman with a Veil (c. 1891): Art, History and Details

Woman with a Veil (c. 1891) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Many of Gérôme’s best known works reflect the 19th-century European fascination with the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa, which manifested in Orientalist works like this sculpture depicting a woman adjusting her veil. Multiple versions of this sculpture exist, including some with marble and gold additions.

Object facts

• Title: Woman with a Veil
• Date: c. 1891
• Creator attribution: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 60.5 x 32.7 cm (23 13/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1979.115

Collection credit

The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
• Rionnet, Florence. Les bronzes Barbedienne: l'œuvre d'une dynastie de fondeurs (1834-1954). Paris: Arthena, 2016. p. 176-177.

View the collection record

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