Sculpture
Woman with a Veil
Permanent ExhibitionSculptureMetalwork
Details
- Author / creator
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Date or period
- c. 1891
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 60.5 × 32.7 cm
- Primary material
- Bronze
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 1979
About this object
Many of Gérôme’s best known works reflect the 19th-century European fascination with the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa, which manifested in Orientalist works like this sculpture depicting a woman adjusting her veil. Multiple versions of this sculpture exist, including some with marble and gold additions.
Materials and technique
Bronze
Signature and marks
signed upper surface of base: "J L Gerome"; inscribed edge of base at back: "F. Barbedienne, Fondeur, Paris."
