Pool in a Harem
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1876
Jean-Léon Gérôme
France · 1824–1904
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 was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire". He was also a teacher with a long list of students, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Edwin Lord Weeks and Osman Hamdi Bey, among others. == Early life == Jean-Léon Gérôme was born at Vesoul, Haute-Saône.
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Pool in a Harem
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1876
State Hermitage Museum
The Great Bath at Bursa
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1885
State Hermitage Museum
Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1846
Musée d'Orsay
Jerusalem
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1867
Musée d'Orsay
Slave Market in Rome
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1884
State Hermitage Museum
Works worth knowing
What Jean-Léon Gérôme made, and why each one is worth looking at.
Pool in a Harem
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1876
State Hermitage Museum
Pool in a Harem is an 1876 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It features a scene in a bathhouse in the Middle Eastern harem. Produced in the academic style popular during the era, it combines elements of nude art and orientalism.
The Great Bath at Bursa
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1885
State Hermitage Museum
The Great Bath at Bursa is an 1885 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It features a view inside the bathhouse in the western Turkish city of Bursa then in the Ottoman Empire. It combines Orientalist elements and the academic nude style then at the height of its popularity.
Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1846
Musée d'Orsay
The Cock Fight is an 1846 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight (Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs). It is an example of the Neo-Grec style.
Jerusalem
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1867
Musée d'Orsay
Jerusalem is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion (La Crucifixion). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves.
Slave Market in Rome
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1884
State Hermitage Museum
Slave Market in Ancient Rome is a painting of about 1884 by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, who was known for combining classical, romantic, and realistic elements. It depicts an Ancient Roman slave auction in progress. At the center of a high dais is a completely nude woman having been recently undressed by the slave dealer situated to her right, who is displaying her to the crowd as they bid on her.
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