Art, literature & history
A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
1817
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1940.1117
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Antoine-Jean Gros. A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help. Antoine-Jean Gros; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help — Antoine-Jean Gros. 1817.
Medium: lithograph. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Gros specialized in large battle paintings memorializing the feats of Napoleon (1769-1821). This Orientalist military subject records Napoleon's campaign in Egypt against the British Empire. It also demonstrates how spontaneously the artist could draw on the lithograph stone.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.