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Antoine-Jean Gros

A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help

1817
lithograph

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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.

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