Jean Leon Gerome Painting Reproductions 1 of 5
1824-1904
French Academic Classicism Painter
Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 - January 10, 1904) was a French painter and sculptor who produced many works in a historical, Orientalist style.
Born at Vesoul (Haute-Saône), he went to Paris in 1841 where he studied at the Académie Julian and worked under Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Italy (1844-1845). On his return he exhibited The Cock-fight, which gained him a third-class medal in the Salon of 1847. The Virgin with Christ and St John and Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid took a second-class medal in 1848. He exhibited Bacchus and Love, Drunk, a Greek Interior and Souvenir d'Italie, in 1851; Paestum (1852); and An Idyll (1853).
In 1854 Gérôme made a journey to Turkey and the shores of the Danube, and in 1857 visited Egypt. To the exhibition of 1855 he contributed a Pifferaro, a Shepherd, A Russian Concert and a large historical canvas, The Age of Augustus and the Birth of Christ. The last was somewhat confused in effect, but in recognition of its consummate ability the State purchased it.
Gérôme's reputation was greatly enhanced at the Salon of 1857 by a collection of works of a more popular kind: the Duel: after a Masquerade, Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris and Camels Watering, the drawing of which was criticized by Edmond About.
In Caesar (1859) Gérôme tried to return to a severer class of work, but the picture failed to interest the public. Phryne before the Areopagus, Le Roi Candaule and Socrates finding Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia (1861) gave rise to some scandal by reason of the subjects selected by the painter, and brought down on him the bitter attacks of Paul de Saint-Victor and Maxime Du Camp. At the same Salon he exhibited the Egyptian chopping Straw, and Rembrandt biting an Etching, two very minutely finished works.
Gérôme's best paintings are of Eastern subjects; among these may be named the Turkish Prisoner and Turkish Butcher (1863); Prayer (1865); The Slave Market (1867); and The Harem out Driving (1869). He often illustrated history, as in Louis XIV and Molière (1863); The Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau (1865); and the Death of Marshal Ney (1868).
Gérôme was also successful as a sculptor; he executed, among other works; Omphale (1887), and the statue of the duc d'Aumale which stands in front of the château of Chantilly (1899). His Bellona (1892), in ivory, metal, and precious stones, which was also exhibited in the Royal Academy of London, attracted great attention. The artist then began an interesting series of Conquerors, wrought in gold, silver and gems Bonaparte entering Cairo (1897); Tamerlane (1898); and Frederick the Great (1899).
Gérôme was elected member of the Institut in 1865.
His students included: Dagnan-Bouveret, Lecomte du Nouy, Thomas Eakins, Frank Boggs, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Kenyon Cox, Dennis Miller Bunker, William DeLeftwich Dodge, Wyatt Eaton, Alexander Harrison, Robert Lee MacCameron, Siddons Mowbray, Lawton Parker, Harper Pennington, William Picknell, Julius Stewart, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Douglas Volk and J. Alden Weir.
Jean-Léon Gérôme died in 1904 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.
Born at Vesoul (Haute-Saône), he went to Paris in 1841 where he studied at the Académie Julian and worked under Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Italy (1844-1845). On his return he exhibited The Cock-fight, which gained him a third-class medal in the Salon of 1847. The Virgin with Christ and St John and Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid took a second-class medal in 1848. He exhibited Bacchus and Love, Drunk, a Greek Interior and Souvenir d'Italie, in 1851; Paestum (1852); and An Idyll (1853).
In 1854 Gérôme made a journey to Turkey and the shores of the Danube, and in 1857 visited Egypt. To the exhibition of 1855 he contributed a Pifferaro, a Shepherd, A Russian Concert and a large historical canvas, The Age of Augustus and the Birth of Christ. The last was somewhat confused in effect, but in recognition of its consummate ability the State purchased it.
Gérôme's reputation was greatly enhanced at the Salon of 1857 by a collection of works of a more popular kind: the Duel: after a Masquerade, Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris and Camels Watering, the drawing of which was criticized by Edmond About.
In Caesar (1859) Gérôme tried to return to a severer class of work, but the picture failed to interest the public. Phryne before the Areopagus, Le Roi Candaule and Socrates finding Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia (1861) gave rise to some scandal by reason of the subjects selected by the painter, and brought down on him the bitter attacks of Paul de Saint-Victor and Maxime Du Camp. At the same Salon he exhibited the Egyptian chopping Straw, and Rembrandt biting an Etching, two very minutely finished works.
Gérôme's best paintings are of Eastern subjects; among these may be named the Turkish Prisoner and Turkish Butcher (1863); Prayer (1865); The Slave Market (1867); and The Harem out Driving (1869). He often illustrated history, as in Louis XIV and Molière (1863); The Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau (1865); and the Death of Marshal Ney (1868).
Gérôme was also successful as a sculptor; he executed, among other works; Omphale (1887), and the statue of the duc d'Aumale which stands in front of the château of Chantilly (1899). His Bellona (1892), in ivory, metal, and precious stones, which was also exhibited in the Royal Academy of London, attracted great attention. The artist then began an interesting series of Conquerors, wrought in gold, silver and gems Bonaparte entering Cairo (1897); Tamerlane (1898); and Frederick the Great (1899).
Gérôme was elected member of the Institut in 1865.
His students included: Dagnan-Bouveret, Lecomte du Nouy, Thomas Eakins, Frank Boggs, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Kenyon Cox, Dennis Miller Bunker, William DeLeftwich Dodge, Wyatt Eaton, Alexander Harrison, Robert Lee MacCameron, Siddons Mowbray, Lawton Parker, Harper Pennington, William Picknell, Julius Stewart, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Douglas Volk and J. Alden Weir.
Jean-Léon Gérôme died in 1904 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.
209 Gerome Paintings
The Grey Cardinal 1873
Oil Painting
$2723
$2723
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2798
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 68.6 x 101 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 68.6 x 101 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Pelt Merchant of Cairo 1880
Oil Painting
$1324
$1324
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2856
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 61.5 x 50.2 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 61.5 x 50.2 cm
Private Collection
Arabs Crossing the Desert 1870
Oil Painting
$1258
$1258
Canvas Print
$53.73
$53.73
SKU: GER-2857
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 41.2 x 56 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 41.2 x 56 cm
Private Collection
The Arab and his Steed (In the Desert) 1872
Oil Painting
$1443
$1443
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2858
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59.7 x 99 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59.7 x 99 cm
Private Collection
Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down) 1872
Oil Painting
$3975
$3975
Canvas Print
$49.94
$49.94
SKU: GER-2859
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 100 x 149.2 cm
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 100 x 149.2 cm
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Prayer in Cairo (Prayer on the Rooftops of Cairo) 1865
Oil Painting
$1711
$1711
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2860
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 49.9 x 81.2 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 49.9 x 81.2 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Teaser of the Narghile (The Pipelighter) c.1898
Oil Painting
$1324
$1324
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2861
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54.6 x 66 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54.6 x 66 cm
Private Collection
Bathsheba 1889
Oil Painting
$1416
$1416
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2862
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 60.5 x 100 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 60.5 x 100 cm
Private Collection
Almehs Playing Chess in a Cafe 1870
Oil Painting
$1690
$1690
Canvas Print
$63.34
$63.34
SKU: GER-2863
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 65.7 x 54.8 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 65.7 x 54.8 cm
Private Collection
Cairene Horse Dealer (The Horse Market) 1867
Oil Painting
$1648
$1648
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2864
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 57 x 45 cm
The Haggin Museum, California, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 57 x 45 cm
The Haggin Museum, California, USA
Arnauts Playing Chess (The Draught Players) 1859
Oil Painting
$1484
$1484
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2865
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.3 x 28.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.3 x 28.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Camels at the Watering-Place 1857
Oil Painting
$1750
$1750
SKU: GER-2866
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 75 x 120 cm
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 75 x 120 cm
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada
Egyptian Water Carrier c.1882
Oil Painting
$984
$984
SKU: GER-2867
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Quaerens Quem Devoret 1888
Oil Painting
$1539
$1539
SKU: GER-2868
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 62.3 x 110 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 62.3 x 110 cm
Private Collection
Napoleon and His General Military Staff in Egypt 1867
Oil Painting
$3457
$3457
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2869
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 58.4 x 88.2 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 58.4 x 88.2 cm
Private Collection
Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets) c.1870
Oil Painting
$1648
$1648
Canvas Print
$53.21
$53.21
SKU: GER-2870
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54.6 x 62.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54.6 x 62.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Nude Woman Bathing c.1889
Oil Painting
$1080
$1080
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2871
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.9 x 32.5 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.9 x 32.5 cm
Private Collection
Moorish Bath, Two Women (Turkish Bath) 1870
Oil Painting
$1392
$1392
Canvas Print
$50.75
$50.75
SKU: GER-2872
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
The Syrian Shepherd 1865
Oil Painting
$1711
$1711
SKU: GER-2873
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Arabs Arguing 1871
Oil Painting
$1523
$1523
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2874
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 30 x 24 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 30 x 24 cm
Private Collection
Pygmalion and Galatea c.1890
Oil Painting
$1531
$1531
Canvas Print
$57.65
$57.65
SKU: GER-2875
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 88.9 x 68.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 88.9 x 68.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool c.1900
Oil Painting
$1664
$1664
SKU: GER-2876
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Summer Afternoon on a Lake c.1895
Oil Painting
$1601
$1601
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2877
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59.7 x 92 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59.7 x 92 cm
Private Collection
The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam ... 1893
Oil Painting
$1586
$1586
Canvas Print
$54.14
$54.14
SKU: GER-2878
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.1 x 68.8 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.1 x 68.8 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Prayer in the Desert 1864
Oil Painting
$1238
$1238
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2879
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 48.5 x 81.3 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 48.5 x 81.3 cm
Private Collection
Bathers by the Edge of a River n.d.
Oil Painting
$842
$842
SKU: GER-2880
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Harem Women Feeding Pigeons in a Courtyard 1894
Oil Painting
$1191
$1191
Canvas Print
$54.95
$54.95
SKU: GER-2881
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 60.3 x 81.6 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 60.3 x 81.6 cm
Private Collection
Master of the Hounds 1876
Oil Painting
$1467
$1467
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2882
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 33 x 25 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 33 x 25 cm
Private Collection
The Grand Bath at Bursa 1885
Oil Painting
$1772
$1772
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2883
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 70 x 100.5 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 70 x 100.5 cm
Private Collection
The Women's Bath 1889
Oil Painting
$1334
$1334
Canvas Print
$61.85
$61.85
SKU: GER-2884
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 67.7 x 54.6 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 67.7 x 54.6 cm
Private Collection
The First Kiss of the Sun (The Pyramids) n.d.
Oil Painting
$1334
$1334
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2885
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54 x 100.4 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54 x 100.4 cm
Private Collection
The Terrace of the Seraglio 1886
Oil Painting
$2102
$2102
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-2886
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 82 x 122 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 82 x 122 cm
Private Collection
Moorish Bath c.1880/85
Oil Painting
$1446
$1446
Canvas Print
$60.90
$60.90
SKU: GER-2887
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 73.7 x 59.7 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 73.7 x 59.7 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
The Dance of the Almeh (The Belly-Dancer) 1863
Oil Painting
$2025
$2025
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-3296
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.2 x 81.3 cm
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.2 x 81.3 cm
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA
The Carpet Merchant c.1887
Oil Painting
$4071
$4071
Canvas Print
$58.34
$58.34
SKU: GER-3901
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 86 x 68.7 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 86 x 68.7 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Whirling Dervishes 1899
Oil Painting
$2820
$2820
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-3956
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 72.5 x 94 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 72.5 x 94 cm
Private Collection
Jerusalem (Golgotha, Consummatum Est, Crucifixion) 1867
Oil Painting
$1648
$1648
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-4838
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 82 x 144 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 82 x 144 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
The Bacchante 1883
Oil Painting
$1135
$1135
Canvas Print
$55.52
$55.52
SKU: GER-5739
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 47.5 x 47.5 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 47.5 x 47.5 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
The Slave Market c.1866/67
Oil Painting
$2353
$2353
Canvas Print
$55.35
$55.35
SKU: GER-8495
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 84.3 x 63 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 84.3 x 63 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
The Guard of the Harem 1859
Oil Painting
$1266
$1266
SKU: GER-8497
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Colossus of Memnon 1857
Oil Painting
$1467
$1467
Canvas Print
$59.83
$59.83
SKU: GER-11357
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Arnaut of Cairo 1871
Oil Painting
$1254
$1254
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-11358
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 25.4 x 20 cm
Private Collection
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 25.4 x 20 cm
Private Collection
Pool in a Harem c.1876
Oil Painting
$1732
$1732
Canvas Print
$63.34
$63.34
SKU: GER-11359
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 73.5 x 62 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 73.5 x 62 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Slave Market in Ancient Rome c.1884
Oil Painting
$3201
$3201
Canvas Print
$72.50
$72.50
SKU: GER-11360
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 92 x 74 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 92 x 74 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Duel after a Masked Ball 1857
Oil Painting
$1568
$1568
Canvas Print
$62.60
$62.60
SKU: GER-11361
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 68 x 99 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 68 x 99 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Duel After the Masquerade c.1857/59
Oil Painting
$1334
$1334
Canvas Print
$84.92
$84.92
SKU: GER-11362
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 39.1 x 56.3 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 39.1 x 56.3 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
At the End of the Masked Ball 1867
Oil Painting
$1469
$1469
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-11363
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Musee Conde, Chantilly, France
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Musee Conde, Chantilly, France
The Tulip Folly 1882
Oil Painting
$1762
$1762
Canvas Print
$49.12
$49.12
SKU: GER-11364
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 65.4 x 100 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 65.4 x 100 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA