Jean-Léon Gérôme
 (1824–1904)
 

Jean-Léon Gérôme  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." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Léon_Gérôme

Turkish "Bashi-bazouk" Mercenary Soldiers Playing Chess
circa 1870-1873
Oil on canvas
93.98 x 79.38 cm
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans US
https://noma.org/collection/turkish-bashi-bazouk-mercenary-soldiers-playing-chess/