Jean-Léon Gérôme facts for kids
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Born | Vesoul, Haute-Saône, France
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11 May 1824
Died | 10 January 1904 Paris, France
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(aged 79)
Nationality | French |
Education | Paul Delaroche, Charles Gleyre |
Known for | Painting, Sculpture |
Movement | Orientalism |
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 peak. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. He was also a teacher with a long list of students.
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Honours
Gérôme was elected, a member of the Institut de France in 1865. Already a knight in the Légion d'honneur, he was promoted to an officer in 1867. In 1869, he was elected an honorary member of the British Royal Academy. The King of Prussia Wilhelm I awarded him the Grand Order of the Red Eagle, Third Class. His fame had become such that he was invited, along with the most eminent French artists, to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
He was appointed as one of the three professors at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He started with sixteen students, most who had come over from his own studio. His influence became extensive and he was a regular guest of Empress Eugénie at the Imperial Court in Compiègne.
Death
Jean-Léon Gérôme died on 10 January 1904. He was found in front of a portrait of Rembrandt and close to his own painting Truth Coming Out of Her Well. At his own request, he was given a simple burial service without flowers. But the Requiem Mass given in his memory was attended by a former president of the Republic, most prominent politicians, and many painters and writers. He was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in front of the statue Sorrow that he had cast for his son Jean who had died in 1891.
Images for kids
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Birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Vesoul, France
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L'Eminence Grise, 1873, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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La Douleur, 1891, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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Banner for the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, using detail from Gérôme's The Standing Bearer, Unfolding the Holy Flag (1876)
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The Tryst (exterior), after 1840, Saint Louis Art Museum
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The Tryst (interior), after 1840, Saint Louis Art Museum
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Saint Vincent de Paul, 1847, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme (brother of the artist), 1848, The National Gallery, London
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Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme (brother of the artist), c.1848, Fitzwilliam Museum
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Portrait of a Woman, 1848, Art Institute of Chicago
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A Soul Carried Away by an Angel, 1853, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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The Duel After the Masquerade, version of 1859, Walters Art Museum
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Diogenes, 1860, Walters Art Museum
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The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, 1863, Walters Art Museum
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Young Greeks at the Mosque, 1865, Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Muezzin, 1866, Joslyn Art Museum
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On the Desert, before 1867, Walters Art Museum
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Golgotha ("It is Finished") aka Jerusalem, 1867, Musée d'Orsay
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The Horse Market, 1867, Haggin Museum
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Bashi-Bazouk, 1868–1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bashi-Bazouk, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Prayer in the Mosque, 1871, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Pool in a Harem, 1876, Hermitage Museum
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The Standing Bearer, Unfolding the Holy Flag, 1876, Haggin Museum
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Chariot Race, 1876, Art Institute of Chicago
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The Wailing Wall, 1880, Israel Museum
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The Tulip Folly, 1882, Walters Art Museum
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The Grief of the Pasha, 1882, Joslyn Art Museum
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The Saddle Bazaar, Cairo, 1883, Haggin Museum
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The Two Majesties, 1883, Milwaukee Art Museum
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Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, aka Œdipe, 1886, Hearst Castle
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The Carpet Merchant, c. 1887, Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Tiger on the Watch, c. 1888, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam insufflat pictura (painting breathes life into sculpture), 1893, Art Gallery of Ontario
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Hoop Dancer, c. 1890, Haggin Museum, seen in his painting The Artist and His Model
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Sarah Bernhardt, marble, c. 1895, Musée d'Orsay
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Entry of the Christ at Jerusalem, 1897, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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Souvenir of Achéres, 1903, Columbus Museum of Art
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, self-portrait c. 1844, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University
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Robert Jefferson Bingham, portrait of Gérôme, between 1860 and 1875
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Bust of Jean-Léon Gérôme, after 1871, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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Jules-Clément Chaplain, Jean-Léon Gérôme medal, 1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Self-portrait, 1886, Aberdeen Art Gallery
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Fernand Cormon, The Sculptor at Work, 1891, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm, Gérome painting a hoop dancer, 1897, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
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Aimé Morot, bronze head of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1909, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
See also
In Spanish: Jean-Léon Gérôme para niños
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