The citadel, Acre
The story
The Ottoman citadel of Acre rises from the Mediterranean, figures and small boats in the foreground. Painted in 1861 after Gérôme's Holy Land travels — the orientalist eye applied to a Crusader fortress.
- Artist
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Year
- 1861
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- the-athenaeum.org
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
