Jean-Léon Gérôme

1824–1904 · France · Academic Art, Orientalism

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. Wikipedia

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Meticulous, photographic academic finish, Orientalist scenes, ancient Rome and moments of drama.

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“Pollice Verso”, 1872 — Phoenix Art Museum
“The Slave Market”, 1866 — Clark Art Institute
“Truth Coming Out of Her Well”, 1896 — Musée Anne de Beaujeu
“Phryne before the Areopagus”, 1861 — Hamburger Kunsthalle
“Slave Market in Rome”, 1884 — Hermitage Museum
“Cleopatra and Caesar”, 1866 — Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
“Bonaparte Before the Sphinx”, 1867 — Hearst Castle
“Pool in a Harem”, 1876 — Hermitage Museum
“Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight”, 1846 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Execution of Marshal Ney”, 1868 — Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
“Venus Rising”, 1890
“The Death of Caesar”, 1859 — Walters Art Museum
“The Duel After the Masquerade”, 1857 — Musée Condé
“The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer”, 1883 — Walters Art Museum
“Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles”, 1878 — Musée d'Orsay
“Diogenes”, 1860 — Walters Art Museum
“The Tulip Folly”, 1882 — Walters Art Museum
“Hail Caesar! We Who Are about to Die Salute You”, 1859 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Jerusalem”, 1867 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Snake Charmer”, 1879 — Clark Art Institute
“The Great Bath at Bursa”, 1885 — Hermitage Museum
“L'Eminence Grise”, 1873 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Tanagra”, 1890 — Musée d'Orsay
“A Roman Slave Market”, 1884 — Walters Art Museum
“Alma, playing chess”, 1870
“Black Bashi-Bazouk”, 1869 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Prayer in the Mosque”, 1871 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Slave Market”, 1871 — Cincinnati Art Museum
“King Candaules”, 1859 — Museo de Arte de Ponce
“The End of the Session”, 1886
“The Carpet Merchant”, 1887 — Minneapolis Institute of Art
“Bathsheba”, 1889
“Moorish Bath”, 1870 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Omphale”, 1887
“The Grief of the Pasha”, 1885 — Joslyn Art Museum
“The Two Majesties”, 1883 — Milwaukee Art Museum
“Dance of the Almeh”, 1863 — Dayton Art Institute
“Daphnis and Chloe”, 1852 — Musée Massey
“Bathing women”, 1898 — musée Jean-Léon Gérôme
“Reception of the Siamese ambassadors by the Emperor Napoleon III at the Palace of Fontainebleau, 27 June 1861”, 1864 — Palace of Versailles

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