Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904)
Étude des palmiers (Study of Palm Trees)
probably 1868
Oil on canvas, laid down on board, 26.7 × 32.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This study is thought to have been painted in 1868, during Gérôme‘s third visit to Egypt. The same cluster of palm trees reappears with slight variations in Caravan, an undated work executed late in the artist’s career (whereabouts unknown). (MET)