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Prayer in the Mosque
Artist	Jean-Léon Gérôme
Year	1871
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	88.9 cm × 74.9 cm (35.0 in × 29.5 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession	87.15.130

Prayer in the Mosque is a mid-19th century painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the interior of an Egyptian mosque in which worshipers are praying. The orientalist painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

References

1. "Prayer in the Mosque". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
2. Edward Strahan , ed. The Art Treasures of America. Philadelphia, , vol. 1, pp. 126–27, 134, calls it "In the Mosque of Amrou" in the text and "Sheik at Devotions, Ancient Mosque in Cairo" in the list of works in Miss Wolfe's collection.

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Paintings	The Cock Fight (1846) The Age of Augustus [fr] (1855) The Duel After the Masquerade (1857, 1859) Diogenes [fr] (1860) The Prisoner [fr] (1861) Phryne Before the Areopagus (1861) Cleopatra and Caesar (1866) The Slave Market (1866) The Death of Caesar (1867) Jerusalem (1867) The Execution of Marshal Ney (1868) Bashi-Bazouk (1869) Prayer in the Mosque (1871) Pollice Verso (1872) Chariot Race [fr] (1876) Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles (1878) The Snake Charmer (1879) A Chat by the Fireside (1881) The Tulip Folly (1882) The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer (1883) Slave Market in Ancient Rome (1884) Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (1886) The Carpet Merchant (1887) Bathsheba (1889) Pygmalion and Galatea (1890) The Birth of Venus (1890) Truth Coming Out of Her Well (1896)
Sculptures	Omphale (1887) Tanagra (1890)
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