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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 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."
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Jean-Léon Gérôme (born May 11, 1824, Vesoul, France—died Jan. 10, 1904, Paris) was a painter, sculptor, and teacher, one of the most prominent late 19th-century academic artists in France. Gérôme, whose father was a goldsmith, studied with Paul Delaroche.
French painter, was born on the 11th of May 1824 at Vesoul (Haute-SaOne). He went to Paris in 1841 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.
Pygmalion and Galatea. Jean-Léon Gérôme French. ca. 1890. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800. Between 1890 and 1892, Gérôme made both painted and sculpted variations on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea, the tale recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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Bashi-Bazouk. Jean-Léon Gérôme French. 1868–69. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 804. This arresting picture was made after Gérôme returned to Paris from a twelve-week journey to the Near East in 1868. He was at the height of his career when he dressed a model in his studio with garments and accessories he had acquired abroad.
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