Title
Chief of the Mamelukes on horseback, calling for help
1817
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1817
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 27.0 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 378.1990
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Antoine-Jean Baron Gros
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About
Gros was one of the leading painters during the reigns of Emperor Napoleon, King Louis XVIII and King Charles X. He made only 2 lithographs, both inspired by orientalist themes. Interest in the Orient was at its height because of the Napoleonic campaigns in Egypt and Syria. The mamelukes were defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798. But so impressed was Napoleon by the ferocity of their warfare that he recruited his own regiment of mamelukes as part of the Imperial Guard.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, 13. no catalogue numbers
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