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''The Cock Fight'' () is an 1846 painting by the French artist
Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academic painting, academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living art ...
. It is also known as ''Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight'' (''Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs''). It is an example of the Neo-Grec style. It was one of Gérôme's first successes.


Provenance

After his failed attempt to win the
Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
, Gérôme was hesitant to exhibit ''The Cock Fight'' out of fear for another setback, but was convinced by his teacher
Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (; Paris, 17 July 1797 – Paris, 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subje ...
to enter it into the 1847
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. It was well received at the Salon and was sold to Mr. Roux-Laborie. The art dealer Adolphe Goupil bought it from the widowed Countess H. de Bussat, born Laborie, in 1872 and sold it to the
Musée du Luxembourg The () is a museum at 19 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens) an ...
in 1873. From 1920 to 1986 it was at the
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, and since 1986 it is housed at the
Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...
.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cock Fight 1846 paintings Chickens in art Cockfighting Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay Paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme Oil on canvas paintings Nude paintings of women