The Cock Fight
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1846
The story
The Cock Fight (French: Un combat de coqs) is an 1846 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight (Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs). It is an example of the Neo-Grec style. It was one of Gérôme's first successes.
- Artist
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Date
- 1846
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
- Movement
- academic art, Orientalist painting
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 143 × 204 cm
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