Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert
| Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Jean-Léon Gérôme |
| Year | 1857 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 62 cm × 106 cm (24 in × 42 in) |
| Location | Private collection |
Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert (French: Recrues égyptiennes traversant le désert) is an 1857 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1][2] A genre painting of the fashionable Orientalist style, it depicts a group of recruits of the Egyptian Army being escorted through the desert. Drawn from conscripted fellaheen, they are shown as a sandstorm approaches.[3]
Gérôme had visited Egypt the previous year. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1857 held in the Palace of Industry in Paris. It was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Allan & Morton p.156
- ^ Weinberg p.35-36
- ^ "Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert | The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection | 2021". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
- ^ "Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert | The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection | 2021". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
Bibliography
[edit]- Allan, Scott & Morton, Mary G. Reconsidering Gérôme. Getty Publications, 2010.
- Lafont-Couturier, Hélène. Gérôme and Goupil. Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000.
- Weinberg, Helene Barbara. The American Pupils of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Amon Carter Museum, 1984.
 | This article about a painting from the 1850s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |