
Jean Leon Gerome Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 9
1824-1904French Academic Classicism Painter and Sculptor
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 Paintings of Gerome
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
The Grey Cardinal
$1162
$47.90
Private Collection
Pelt Merchant of Cairo
$565
$47.90
Private Collection
Arabs Crossing the Desert
$537
$52.40
Private Collection
The Arab and his Steed (In the Desert)
$616
$47.90
Phoenix Art Museum Arizona USA
Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down)
$1696
$48.71
Hamburger Kunsthalle Hamburg Germany
Prayer in Cairo (Prayer on the Rooftops of Cairo)
$730
$47.90
Private Collection
The Teaser of the Narghile (The Pipelighter)
$565
$47.90
Private Collection
Bathsheba
$604
$47.90
Private Collection
Almehs Playing Chess in a Cafe
$721
$47.90
The Haggin Museum California USA
Cairene Horse Dealer (The Horse Market)
$703
$47.90
The Wallace Collection London United Kingdom
Arnauts Playing Chess (The Draught Players)
$633
$47.90
National Gallery of Art Ottawa Canada
Camels at the Watering-Place
$747
Private Collection
Egyptian Water Carrier
$420
Private Collection
Quaerens Quem Devoret
$657
Private Collection
Napoleon and His General Military Staff in Egypt
$1475
$47.90
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)
$703
$51.90
Private Collection
Nude Woman Bathing
$461
$47.90
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Moorish Bath, Two Women (Turkish Bath)
$594
$49.50
Private Collection
The Syrian Shepherd
$730
Private Collection
Arabs Arguing
$650
$47.90
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Pygmalion and Galatea
$653
$56.23
Private Collection
Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool
$710
Private Collection
Summer Afternoon on a Lake
$683
$47.90
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto Canada
The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam ...
$677
$52.80