A Chat by the Fireside | |
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Artist | Jean-Léon Gérôme |
Year | 1881 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Orientalism, academicism |
Dimensions | 46.4 cm × 38 cm (18.25 in × 15 in) |
Location | Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
Accession | 1970.0008 |
A Chat by the Fireside is a painting by 19th Century French Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. It was completed in 1881 and today is held in the collections of The Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas where it is not on public view. The painting depicts a candid conversation between two men in a Ottoman interior.[1]