Eugène Fromentin · 1873

Arabs Crossing a Ford

Name: Arabs Crossing a Ford by Eugène Fromentin
Brand: Chromora
SKU: arabs-crossing-a-ford
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Public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open access collection.

Up to 16 × 13 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Arabs Crossing a Ford

Fromentin's small group of mounted Arabs picking their way across a shallow stream in the Algerian interior, painted from sketches he made on his three extended journeys through North Africa between 1846 and 1853. The hot light, the spare landscape, and the close-up movement of the horses make this one of his most-pinned Orientalist canvases. Like much of Fromentin's work, it is held in major French and American museum collections.

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