Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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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Portrait of the Maistre Sisters
Dr. Vignardonne
Portrait of Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand
Portrait of Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Egyptian Family (Sketch for "The Battle of the Pyramids")
General Jean-Baptiste Kléber and Egyptian Family (Sketches f
General Jean-Baptiste Kléber (Sketch for "The Battle of the 
Arab of the Desert
Pieter Soutman|Peter Paul Rubens|Adam Elsheimer — A Turkish 
Pieter Soutman|Peter Paul Rubens|Adam Elsheimer — A Turkish 
Aleksandr Orlovsky — Kurd in military armor on horseback
Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863) — Arab on Horseback
Théodore Gericault — Mamluk Defending a Wounded Trumpeter
Stefano della Bella|Johanna Christina Küsell|Jeremias Wolff 
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) — African on Horseback
Stefano della Bella — Hungarian horseman riding towards the 
Adriaen de Vries|Marcus Sadeler|Aegidius Sadeler II — Portra
Aleksandr Orlowski (Russian, 1777–1832) — Tartars on Horseba
John Hamilton Mortimer (British, 1740–1779) — Richard II
Stefano della Bella — Polish horseman in profile facing righ