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| Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - Study of Lions - Walters 372789.jpg Gérôme one of the most successful academic artists and teachers in France during the second half of the 19th century traveled to the Near East searching for subjects During the late 1880s he was fascinated by animals particularly lions This work in which the same lion lapping water is shown twice may have been a study for his Lion Drinking from a Desert Stream formerly in the Albright Knox Gallery Buffalo New York ca 1900 pencil on thin beige paper tipped onto a sheet which has been lined to simulate a French mat cm 21 91 35 24 accession number 37 2789 79167 Joseph F McCrindle 1923-2008 New York A1511 Joseph F McCrindle Foundation New York 2008 by bequest Walters Art Museum Gift of the Joseph F McCrindle Collection 2009 Marks Gr on center bottom of drawing Expanding Horizons Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2010 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Drawings by Jean-Léon Gérôme Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Drawings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
