Portrait of Jean Leon Gerome

Jean Leon Gerome Painting Reproductions 4 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.

209 Gerome Paintings

Arnaut Smoking, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Arnaut Smoking n.d.

Oil Painting
$1620
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11394
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 35.6 x 25.4 cm
Private Collection

Rembrandt Etching a Plate in His Atelier, 1861 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Rembrandt Etching a Plate in His Atelier 1861

Oil Painting
$1310
Canvas Print
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SKU: GER-11395
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 55.9 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

The Reception of Siamese Ambassadors by Emperor Napoleon III at the Palace of Fontainebleau, 1861 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Reception of Siamese Ambassadors by Emperor ... 1861

Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11396
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 128 x 260 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Prayer at The Sultan's Tomb, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Prayer at The Sultan's Tomb n.d.

Oil Painting
$1220
Canvas Print
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SKU: GER-11397
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Solitude, 1890 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Solitude 1890

Oil Painting
$1068
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11398
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 28.9 x 47.3 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

Portrait of Armand Gerome, 1848 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Armand Gerome 1848

Oil Painting
$1220
Canvas Print
$55.55
SKU: GER-11399
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.2 x 43.8 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, 1866 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild 1866

Oil Painting
$1747
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11400
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 49.6 x 35.8 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Sermon in the Mosque, 1903 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Sermon in the Mosque 1903

Oil Painting
$4296
Canvas Print
$64.27
SKU: GER-11401
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 70 x 101.6 cm
Ball State University Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

Leaving the Oasis, c.1880/90 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Leaving the Oasis c.1880/90

Oil Painting
$1525
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SKU: GER-11402
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50 x 81.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Lion on the Watch, c.1885 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Lion on the Watch c.1885

Oil Painting
$1562
Canvas Print
$54.76
SKU: GER-11403
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 72.3 x 100.5 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland, c.1850 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland c.1850

Oil Painting
$1220
Canvas Print
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SKU: GER-11404
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 26.8 x 37 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

The Guard, 1889 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Guard 1889

Oil Painting
$1350
Canvas Print
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SKU: GER-11405
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 55.8 x 46.5 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

Rustem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Rustem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul n.d.

Oil Painting
$3344
Canvas Print
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SKU: GER-11406
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 67.6 x 88.5 cm
Private Collection

The Black Bard, 1888 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Black Bard 1888

Oil Painting
$2107
Canvas Print
$63.92
SKU: GER-11407
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 61.2 x 50.8 cm
Private Collection

A Bashi-Bazouk and His Dog, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

A Bashi-Bazouk and His Dog n.d.

Oil Painting
$1445
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11408
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 35.6 x 25.1 cm
Private Collection

After the Bath, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

After the Bath n.d.

Oil Painting
$1721
Canvas Print
$52.32
SKU: GER-11409
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 82.6 x 66.7 cm
Private Collection

Moorish Bath (Turkish Woman Bathing), c.1870 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Moorish Bath (Turkish Woman Bathing) c.1870

Oil Painting
$1345
Canvas Print
$51.68
SKU: GER-11410
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 50.5 x 40.5 cm
Private Collection

Egyptian Donkey, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Egyptian Donkey n.d.

Oil Painting
$1350
Canvas Print
$65.72
SKU: GER-11411
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 57.8 x 45 cm
Private Collection

A Young Nymph Teased by Putti, 1851 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

A Young Nymph Teased by Putti 1851

Oil Painting
$1376
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11412
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Private Collection

The Muezzin, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Muezzin n.d.

Oil Painting
$1620
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11413
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 40.5 x 29.5 cm
Private Collection

The Tomb of Sultan, n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Tomb of Sultan n.d.

Oil Painting
$1676
Canvas Print
$62.75
SKU: GER-11414
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 61.5 x 59 cm
Private Collection

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, 1848 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist 1848

Oil Painting
$2515
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11415
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 108.5 x 75 cm
Private Collection

The Reception of the Grand Conde at Versailles, 1878 by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

The Reception of the Grand Conde at Versailles 1878

Oil Painting
$9548
Canvas Print
$52.11
SKU: GER-11416
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 96.5 x 139.7 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Solomon's Wall Jerusalem (The Wailing Wall), n.d. by Gerome | Painting Reproduction

Solomon's Wall Jerusalem (The Wailing Wall) n.d.

Oil Painting
$1844
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: GER-11417
Jean Leon Gerome
Original Size: 92.4 x 73.7 cm
Private Collection

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