Stretched framed tapestry "Sword dance at Pachas" by George Barrie After Jean-Leon Gerome. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." From 1893 to 1895 the Philadelphia printer and publisher, George Barrie, was at work upon a large and lavish series of original etchings and chromolithographs detailingexhibits of the fine art from participating countries at the World's Columbian Exposition. The original prints were limited to an edition of only two hundred impressions. Barrie hired some of the finestetchers of the time to work on the series. Story of the Sabre dancers: One theory traces its origin to the late 18th century during the French occupation of Egypt, when the