DETAILS
- Artist
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Date
- 1844
- Medium
- graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
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