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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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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Jan van Essen — Lioness Resting
Charles Courtry|Antoine-Louis Barye — Lion walking
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) — Lion of the Atlas Mou
Pieter Gerardus van Os — A Lion from the Menagerie of King L
George Townley Stubbs|George Stubbs — The Lyon (Recumbent Li
Eugène Delacroix — Lion of the Atlas Mountains
Eugène Delacroix — Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion
Antoine-Louis Barye|Jules Laurens — Lion and Serpent
Théodore Gericault — Lions in a Mountainous Landscape
Sir Peter Paul Rubens — Daniel in the Lions' Den
George Stubbs — A Lion (A Lion Resting on a Rock)
John Macallan Swan — Een leeuwin met vier zogende welpen, ge
