Beware the DogArtist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
Title: Beware the Dog/ Cave Canem Prisonnier de guerre a Rome, 1881
Signed on bottom left
Size: 109x91 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches (106 x 90 cm)
Location: Musée Garret, Vesoul
It is possible that the theme had been suggested by a scene out of 'Salammbo' by Flaubert (1862). Gérôme painted a study of this work as well.
Saïs and his Donkey
Julius Cesar among his Legionnaires
Arab Girl with Waterpipe
Head of a Peasant from the Roman Countryside
Slave Auction
Thumbs Down
Socrates seeking Alcibiades
Tiger on the Watch
The Field of Rest
Lion Sketch
Bathsheba
Augustus Century: Birth of NS Jesus Christ
Landscape
The Tomb of the Sultan
The Grey Cardinal
The Colossus of Memnon
Anacreon
The Harem Bath
The Grief of the Pasha
Sketch for the Excursion of the Harem
Camels at Trough
Woman of Cairo at her Door
Diogenes
The Carpet Merchant