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Jean-Léon Gérôme 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. Gérôme is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and w…
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culture · French painter and sculptor (1824–1904) · painter · sculptor · teacher · graphic artist · architectural drafter · porcelain painter · visual artist · also Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jean Léon Gérome, Jean Léon Gérôme, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Léon Gérome, Jean Gérôme
Born 11 May 1824 · Died 10 January 1904 · Q212499
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Of his painting The Slave Market in an anti-Muslim campaign poster by the right wing populist party, Alternative for Germany, to the consternation of the American museum that owns the painting
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The right wing populist party, Alternative for Germany, used The Slave Market in a campaign poster in the 2019 European Parliament election
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The painting's owner approached the programme to look into the possibility of re-attribution
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The Anne de Beaujeu Museum in Moulins, France, which now owns the painting, mounted the exhibition La vérité est au musée ("Truth is at the Museum"), which collected numerous drawings, sketches, and variants made by Gérô
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His painting Femme circassienne voilée or Veiled Circassian Beauty (1876) was auctioned for 2,057,250 GBP; it now belongs to the Qatar Museums Authority in Doha
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Died 1904-01-10.
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Gérôme executed a two sculpture commission, Metallugical Worker and Metallurgical Science for the American millionaire Charles M
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“I begin to have enough of life. I”
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Recalling his first meeting with Charles Jalabert in 1840, he wrote:At that time, Paris had nothing to do with the Paris of today: no railways, no bicycles, no cars; we were less agitated, and certain districts, among ot
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And now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
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To characterize the profound and irreversible influence of photography:
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Caused a scandal over his opposition to the Caillebotte bequest to the state which eventually became the foundation of the Musée d'Orsay collection
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Named Gérôme honorary president
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Gerome again drew inspiration from the ancient world with an interconnected, slyly self-referential series of paintings and sculptures that depicted Pygmalion and Galatea; the spirit of Tanagra; and himself
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Responding to widespread fascination with the ancient Tanagra figurines recently excavated in Greece, Gérôme sculpted the 5-foot-high, tinted-marble Tanagra, a female nude personifying the Tyche, or presiding spirit, of
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Gérôme made at least two paintings of the mythical Greek sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue, Galatea, at the very moment she is transformed from marble into living flesh
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And an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895
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With his painting L'Eminence Grise (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), a colorful depiction of the main stair hall of the palace of Cardinal Richelieu, popularly known as the Red Cardinal (L'Eminence Rouge), who was France's
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Gérôme produced Pollice Verso, a painting of bloody gladiators and blood-thirsty Vestal virgins in the Colosseum that became one of his most famous works
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Was elected an honorary member of the British Royal Academy
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Married Marie Goupil (1842–1912), the daughter of the international art dealer Adolphe Goupil
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The Duel After the Masquerade, is in the Walters Art Museum)
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Helped to decorate the Paris house of Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte in the Pompeian style
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Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time
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Completed another important commission, decorating the Chapel of St
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To Constantinople, together with the actor Edmond Got, and in 1854 to Greece and Turkey and the shores of the Danube, where he was present at a concert of Russian conscripts making music under the threat of a lash
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Gérôme moved to the Boîte à Thé, a group of studios in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris
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Gérôme received a commission to paint a large mural of an allegorical subject of his choosing
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Decorated a vase later offered by Emperor Napoleon III to Prince Albert, now part of the Royal Collection at St
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Produced the paintings Michelangelo (also called In his Studio) and A Portrait of a Lady
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Tried to enter the prestigious Prix de Rome, but failed in the final stage because his figure drawing was inadequate
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Like many students of Delaroche, he joined the atelier of Charles Gleyre and studied there for a brief time
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Was sent to Paris at the age of 16 where he studied under Paul Delaroche, whom he later accompanied to Italy in 1843
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Born 1824-05-11.
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