Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert (French: Recrues égyptiennes traversant le désert) is an 1857 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. A genre painting of the fashionable Orientalist style, it depicts a group of recruits of the Egyptian Army being escorted through the desert. Drawn from conscripted fellaheen, they are shown as a sandstorm approaches.
Gérôme had visited Egypt the previous year. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1857 held in the Palace of Industry in Paris. It was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021.