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Jean-Léon Gérôme

Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)

1884 or earlier
Oil on canvas
54.6 × 62.9 cm (21.5 × 24.8 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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