A Chat by the Fireside

A Chat by the Fireside
ArtistJean-Léon Gérôme
Year1881
MediumOil on canvas
MovementOrientalism, academicism
Dimensions46.4 cm × 38 cm (18.25 in × 15 in)
LocationSpencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Accession1970.0008

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]

  1. ^ The collections of the Spencer Museum of Art; The University of Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/collection-search#/object/10880; retrieved Oct. 11, 2023.