The Dead Caesar

c. 1859

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Artist, French, 1824 - 1904

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.7 x 32.6 cm (6 9/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.187.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jill Newhouse); acquired 1991 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: xi, xiii, fig. 4 (color).

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: JL Gerome; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 9

Wikidata ID

Q64581257


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