In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Leaving the Oasis repeats several themes in Gérôme's art—camel caravans, oases, and expansive desert landscapes. As an academic realist, Gérôme painted everyday scenes in a meticulous and polished style. Here he carefully rendered the unique forms of the figures' dress and the camels' physical features, as well as the colors of the changing sky and the violet shadows cast by the airborne dogs and the legs of the camels. Although the picture's smoothness and detail suggest a photographic image, Gérôme actually composed his paintings in the studio, basing them on memories and sketches from his visits to the Near East. Following his first trip to Egypt in 1856, he developed into a major figure among 19th-century "Orientalists"—artists who specialized in representing Near Eastern life, culture, and landscapes.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme — View of Medinet El-Fayoum
Charles-Théodore Frère — Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles de Coubertin — Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba
Narcisse Berchère (French, 1819–1891) — A Caravan in the Des
David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) — Church of the Holy Sep
David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) — Fountain of the Virgin
Jean-Léon Gérôme — Camels at the Watering-place
Eugène Fromentin — An Encampment in the Atlas Mountains
Edwin Lord Weeks — The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque outside Delhi
Adolf Schreyer — Arabs on the March
Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885) — Egypt and Nubia, Volume I
Frederick Henry Howard Harris — At Tangier
