Lion on the Watch (Q60515151)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
animal painting (Q2302151)
artist:
Jean-Léon Gérôme (Q212499)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
France (Q142)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
lgH29i9LJH9b0Q
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.25
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: In addition to his fascination with the classical past, Gérôme was one of the leading painters of "orientalist" subjects-exotic and romantic themes inspired by Napoleonic adventures abroad, romantic literature, and European colonialism. From 1855, Gérôme travelled regularly in Turkey, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Long fascinated by African animals, he sketched lions in the Paris zoo as a student and later hunted them on safari in North Africa.
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