Gallery 804 - European Vision of North Africa

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  • Bashi-Bazouk
    Bashi-Bazouk

    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vésoul 1824–1904 Paris)

    Date: 1868–69
    Accession Number: 2008.547.1

  • A Bashi-Bazouk
    A Bashi-Bazouk

    Charles Bargue (French, Paris 1825/26–1883 Paris)

    Date: 1875
    Accession Number: 87.15.102

  • Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
    Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

    Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris)

    Date: 1851
    Accession Number: 1996.285

  • Jerusalem from the Environs
    Jerusalem from the Environs

    Charles-Théodore Frère (French, Paris 1814–1888 Paris)

    Date: possibly 1881
    Accession Number: 87.15.106

  • The Night Patrol at Smyrna
    The Night Patrol at Smyrna

    Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, Paris 1803–1860 Fontainebleau)

    Accession Number: 87.15.93

  • Prayer in the Mosque
    Prayer in the Mosque

    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vésoul 1824–1904 Paris)

    Date: 1871
    Accession Number: 87.15.130

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In 1798 Napoleon conquered Egypt, which had been a province of the Ottoman Empire since 1517. Although he was driven out by the British after one year, his campaign unleashed in Europe a profound curiosity for the Orient and for Islamic culture, which was immediately made manifest in European painting.

Throughout the nineteenth century, artists crossed the straits of Gibraltar and roamed as far as Syria and Turkey in search of picturesque motifs and exotic landscapes. This gallery displays works by several generations of artists, from David's student Girodet, to Ingres's student Chassériau, to one of the last Neoclassical painters, J. L. Gérôme.

The Kenneth Jay Lane Gallery is one of ten rooms that comprise the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries.

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