Bonaparte Before the Sphinx
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867, California State Parks
‘Bonaparte Before the Sphinx’ is a work by Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904). It is dated 1867. It is part of the collection California State Parks. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 62 × 102 cm. The work belongs to the genres history painting and equestrian portrait. The things depicted include The Great Sphinx, Napoleon, gaze, and horse.
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