Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more
Napoleon Entering Cairo
Provenance
Sold, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 19 January 1935, lot 372, as "Gilded Bronze Equestrian Statuette," to George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1990.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, “Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections,” 22 July – 17 September 1972 [no cat.].
Publications
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Sotheby’s, 1986), p. 322, cat. S.38. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 (National Gallery of Canada, 1994), pp. 464–65, no. 310. Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée catalogue raisonné is à jour Les Orientalistes 4 (Paris: ACR Édition, 2000), p. 394–95, cat. S.38.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904) / Cast by Siot-Decauville (French, c. 1891–1926)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- Gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- 38.1 × 43.2 cm (15 × 17 1/16 in.); Base: 68.6 × 35.1 × 53.1 cm (27 × 13 13/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- 20th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.581
More by Jean Léon Gérôme in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001952
Powered by Art Trackers