Lion on the Watch
Medium
oil on wood panel
Dimensions
unframed: 72.3 × 100.5 cm · framed: 105 × 133 × 13.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. F. W. Gehring in memory of her husband, F. W. Gehring
Accession Number
1945.25
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.