Jean Leon Gerome French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
Jean Leon Gerome Anacreon 1848 Catalogue #19
134 x 203 cm (4 feet 5 inches x 6 feet 8 inches)
Mus??e des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Heads of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque of El Hasanein 1866 Catalogue #161 56 x 44.5 cm (22 x 17.5 inches)
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York Painting ID:: 1425
Jean Leon Gerome Heads of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque of El Hasanein 1866 Catalogue #161 56 x 44.5 cm (22 x 17.5 inches)
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York
French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.