
Jean Leon Gerome Painting Reproductions 2 of 9
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

Prayer in the Desert 1864
Oil Painting
$1339
$1339
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$911
$911
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
$1289
$1289
Canvas Print
$56.39
$56.39
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
$1587
$1587
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1916
$1916
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1443
$1443
Canvas Print
$63.48
$63.48
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
$1443
$1443
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$2274
$2274
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1564
$1564
Canvas Print
$62.50
$62.50
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
$2191
$2191
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$4404
$4404
Canvas Print
$59.86
$59.86
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
$3051
$3051
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1783
$1783
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1228
$1228
Canvas Print
$56.98
$56.98
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
$2546
$2546
Canvas Print
$56.80
$56.80
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
$1369
$1369
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
$1587
$1587
Canvas Print
$61.39
$61.39
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
$1357
$1357
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1875
$1875
Canvas Print
$65.00
$65.00
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
$3464
$3464
Canvas Print
$74.40
$74.40
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
$1696
$1696
Canvas Print
$64.23
$64.23
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
$1443
$1443
Canvas Print
$87.14
$87.14
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
$1590
$1590
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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
$1906
$1906
Canvas Print
$50.40
$50.40
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