{{Short description|1846 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file = Jean-Léon Gérôme - Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight - Google Art Project.jpg | title = The Cock Fight | artist = Jean-Léon Gérôme | year = 1846 | medium = Oil on canvas | height_metric = 143 | width_metric = 204 | height_imperial = | width_imperial = | metric_unit = cm | imperial_unit = | city = Paris | museum = Musée d'Orsay }} '''''The Cock Fight''''' ({{Langx|fr|'''Un combat de coqs'''}}) is an 1846 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. 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.<ref name="orsay1" />
==Provenance== After his failed attempt to win the Prix de Rome, Gérôme was hesitant to exhibit ''The Cock Fight'' out of fear for another setback, but was convinced by his teacher Paul Delaroche to enter it into the Salon. It was well received at the Salon of 1847 and was sold to Mr. Roux-Laborie.<ref name="orsay1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/jeunes-grecs-faisant-battre-des-coqs-328|title=Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs dit aussi Un combat de coqs|language=en|publisher=Musée d'Orsay|accessdate=2025-12-16}}</ref><ref name="orsay2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&zsz=5&lnum=5|title=Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs|language=French|publisher=Musée d'Orsay|accessdate=2016-06-29|archive-date=2018-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602065448/http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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 in 1873. From 1920 to 1986 it was at the Louvre, and since 1986 it is housed at the Musée d'Orsay.<ref name="orsay2" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Cock Fight (Gérôme)|''Cock Fight'' (Gerome)}}
{{Jean-Léon Gérôme}} {{Musée d'Orsay}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cock Fight}} Category:1846 paintings Category:Chickens in art Category:Cockfighting Category:Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay Category:Paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme Category:Oil paintings on canvas Category:Nude paintings of women Category:Artworks exhibited at the Salon of 1847