Portrait of Jean Leon Gerome

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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.

209 Gerome Paintings

Portrait of Marie Gerome, 1870 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Marie Gerome 1870

Oil Painting
$1736
Canvas Print
$50.27
SKU: GER-11518
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54 x 36 cm
Private Collection

Prayer in the House of an Arnaut Chief, 1857 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Prayer in the House of an Arnaut Chief 1857

Oil Painting
$1693
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11519
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 36 x 54 cm
Private Collection

Recreation in a Russian Camp. Remembering Moldavia, 1855 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Recreation in a Russian Camp. Remembering Moldavia 1855

Oil Painting
$3292
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11520
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59.5 x 101.5 cm
Private Collection

The Green Mosque at Broussa, 1876 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Green Mosque at Broussa 1876

Oil Painting
$1677
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11521
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 64.5 x 101 cm
Private Collection

The Harem in a Kiosk, 1870 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Harem in a Kiosk 1870

Oil Painting
$2155
Canvas Print
$51.37
SKU: GER-11522
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 76.2 x 111.7 cm
Private Collection

The Marabou, 1889 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Marabou 1889

Oil Painting
$1601
SKU: GER-11523
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 81 x 59.5 cm
Private Collection

Woman at Her Window, 1888 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Woman at Her Window 1888

Oil Painting
$1491
SKU: GER-11524
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 55.8 x 47 cm
Private Collection

The Picador, 1868 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Picador 1868

Oil Painting
$1229
SKU: GER-11525
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 22.2 x 43.2 cm
Private Collection

The Prophets Standard, 1876 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Prophets Standard 1876

Oil Painting
$1447
SKU: GER-11526
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 54 x 50 cm
The Haggin Museum, California, USA

Travelling Merchant in Cairo, 1866 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Travelling Merchant in Cairo 1866

Oil Painting
$1972
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11527
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 45 x 55.8 cm
Private Collection

Woman from Constantinople, 1876 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Woman from Constantinople 1876

Oil Painting
$1182
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11528
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 41 x 32.5 cm
Private Collection

Young Arab Woman with Narghile, 1873 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Young Arab Woman with Narghile 1873

Oil Painting
$1394
SKU: GER-11529
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 81 x 54 cm
Private Collection

Young Greeks at a Mosque, 1865 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Young Greeks at a Mosque 1865

Oil Painting
$1619
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11530
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 37.8 x 27.3 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

A Collaboration Corneille and Moliere, 1873 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

A Collaboration Corneille and Moliere 1873

Oil Painting
$1472
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: GER-11531
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 48 x 67 cm
Private Collection

A Street Scene in Cairo, 1871 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

A Street Scene in Cairo 1871

Oil Painting
$2985
SKU: GER-11532
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 59 x 92.7 cm
Private Collection

Curacao, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Curacao n.d.

Oil Painting
$1554
SKU: GER-11533
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 44.5 x 60 cm
Private Collection

Fellah Women Drawing Water, c.1873/75 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Fellah Women Drawing Water c.1873/75

Oil Painting
$1437
Canvas Print
$50.54
SKU: GER-16632
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 67.3 x 100.2 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA

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