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The painting was first acquired by New York department store magnate A. T. Stewart, reflecting the popularity of G\u00e9r\u00f4me\u2019s slickly finished and often dramatic work among wealthy American collectors in the 19th century. Its arrival in the United States made headlines and was reported by young writer Henry James, who described it as \u201ca fierce m\u00eal\u00e9e of beasts, men, and wheels; the struggle and confusion are powerfully expressed, and the horses and chariots painted with that hard, consummate finish characteristic of the author.\u201d<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"86.3 \u00d7 156 cm (34 \u00d7 61 7\/16 in.); Framed: 108.6 \u00d7 174 cm (42 3\/4 \u00d7 68 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":156,"height":86,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":null,"width":174,"height":108,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on cradled panel","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"George F. Harding Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me, Les \u0152uvres de J. \u2013L. G\u00e9r\u00f4me, vol. 21 (Paris, Goupil, [n.d.]), no. 10.\n\n\u201cThe Art Gallery: A List of the Pictures in Mr. Stewart\u2019s Collection,\u201d New York Times (April 12, 1876), p. 8. \n\nCharles F. Briggs, \u201cAlexander Turney Stewart,\u201d The Independent (April 20, 1876), p. 1.\n\n\u201cAlexander Turney Stewart,\u201d Frank Leslie\u2019s Popular Monthly 1, 6 (1876), no pag.\n\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vors, \u201cJean L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me,\u201d The Art Amateur 1, 4 (1879), p. 71.\n\n\u201cPrivate Galleries: Collection of the Estate of Alexander Turney Stewart,\u201d The Art Amateur 1, 6 (1879), p. 117.\n\nJean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Edward Strahan, ed., G\u00e9r\u00f4me: A Collection of the Works of J.L. G\u00e9r\u00f4me in One Hundred Photogravures, vol. 2, section 8 (New York: S.L. Hall, 1881), no pag. (ill.).\n\n\u201cG\u00e9r\u00f4me as a Draughtsman,\u201d The Art Amateur 6, 3 (1882), p. 52. \n\nErnest Knaufft, \u201cArt Chat: The Stewart Collection II,\u201d The Theatre 2, 25 (1887), p. 426. \n\n\u201cArt Notes,\u201d The Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts (April 2, 1887), p. 170. \n\n\u201cArt Notes and News: The A. T. Stewart Collection,\u201d The Art Interchange (March 12, 1887), p. 81. \n\n\u201cThe A. T. Stewart Collection,\u201d The Art Amateur 16, 3 (1887), p. 56.\n\n\u201cThe Stewart Art Sale,\u201d New York Evangelist (March 21, 1887), p. 8. \n\nFanny Field Hering, G\u00e9r\u00f4me: The Life and Works of Jean L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me (New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892), p. 229 (ill.), p. 236.\n\nHenry James, Parisian Sketches, Letters to the New York Tribune, 1875\u20131876 (New York: New York University Press, 1957; repr. 1978), pp. 98\u201399. \n\nWilliam R. Johnston, The Nineteenth Century Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore: The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1982), p. 104, under no. 108.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983\u201384 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 45. \n\nGerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me with a Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 (London: Sotheby\u2019s Publications, 1986), pp. 108, 123 (ill.), 238, no. 248; French translation (Courbevoie: ACR edition, 2000), pp. 112, 130 (ill.), 131, 286\u201387, cat. 248, fig. 248.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800\u20131900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987), pp. 98 (detail ill.), 99, 101 (ill.), 118. \n\nJack Perry Brown, \u201cThe Return of the Salon: Jean L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me in the Art Institute,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 155\u201357, 162\u201365, 180\u201381 ns. 12, 16, 20, 21, figs. 1, 9.\n\nLaVahn G. Hoh and William R. Rough, Step Right Up!: The Adventure of Circus in America (White Hall, Virginia: Betterway Publications, 1990), p. 35 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), pp. 8, 68 (ill.).\n\nGerald M. Ackerman, Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me: His Life and Work, 1834\u20131904 (Courbevoie: ACR edition, 1997), pp. 122, 127 (ill.).\n\nIvo Blom, \u201cQuod vadis? From Painting to Cinema and Everything in Between,\u201d in Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi, La decimal musa: il cinema e le altre atri (Udine: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Udine, 2001), p. 292 n. 33.\n\nNicholas Horsfall, The Culture of the Roman Plebs (London: Duckworth, 2003), front cover (ill.).\n\nMarcus Junkelmann, Hollywoods Traum von Rom: \u201cGladiator\u201d und die Tradition des Monumentalfilms (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 2004), p. 259, fig. 148.\n\nChristie\u2019s, London, 19th Century European Art Including Orientalist and Spanish Art, Featuring an Important Private Orientalist Collection, sale cat. (Christie\u2019s, July 2, 2008), p. 240, under lot. 167.\n\nMarc Gotlieb, \u201cG\u00e9r\u00f4me\u2019s Cinematic Imagination,\u201d in Scott Allan and Mary Morton, eds., Reconsidering G\u00e9r\u00f4me (Los Angeles: The J. 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