Black Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘Black Bashi-Bazouk’ is a work by Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904). It is dated 1869. It is part of the collection Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 81 × 66 cm. The work belongs to the genre portrait. The things depicted include bashi-bazouk, man, rifle, and headgear.