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Born	(1824-05-11)11 May 1824 Vesoul, Haute-Saône, France
Died	10 January 1904(1904-01-10) (aged 79) Paris, France
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

Reception of Le Grand Condé at Versailles (1878)

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.

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Birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Vesoul, France
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, c. 1852–1854, Musée de Picardie
Recreation in a Russian Camp, 1855
Encampment near Constantinople, 1878, an example of Gérôme's plein-air oil sketches, Ger Eenens Collection, The Netherlands
Ave Caesar! Morituri te Salutant, 1859, Yale University Art Gallery
Caricature of Gérôme by Henri Oulevay, commenting on the controversy roused by The Execution of Marshal Ney
L'Eminence Grise, 1873, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Summer Afternoon on a Lake, c. 1895, private collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme, portrait photogravure Goupil c. 1892
La Douleur, 1891, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
Banner for the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, using detail from Gérôme's The Standing Bearer, Unfolding the Holy Flag (1876)
The Tryst (exterior), after 1840, Saint Louis Art Museum
The Tryst (interior), after 1840, Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Vincent de Paul, 1847, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme (brother of the artist), 1848, The National Gallery, London
Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme (brother of the artist), c.1848, Fitzwilliam Museum
Portrait of a Woman, 1848, Art Institute of Chicago
La République, 1848–1849, Petit Palais, Paris
Portrait of a Lady, 1849, Musée Ingres
A Soul Carried Away by an Angel, 1853, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, 1857
The Duel After the Masquerade, version of 1859, Walters Art Museum
Diogenes, 1860, Walters Art Museum
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, 1863, Walters Art Museum
Napoleon in Egypt, c. 1863, Princeton University Art Museum
Young Greeks at the Mosque, 1865, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Arnaut Smoking, 1865
Prayer in Cairo, 1865
Heads of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque of El Hasanein, Cairo, 1866
The Muezzin, 1866, Joslyn Art Museum
On the Desert, before 1867, Walters Art Museum
Golgotha ("It is Finished") aka Jerusalem, 1867, Musée d'Orsay
The Horse Market, 1867, Haggin Museum
Bashi-Bazouk, 1868–1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bashi-Bazouk, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Riders Crossing the Desert, 1870, private collection
The Harem in the Kiosk, c. 1870–1875, private collection
Prayer in the Mosque, 1871, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pool in a Harem, 1876, Hermitage Museum
Femme circassienne voilée, 1876, Qatar Museums Authority
The Standing Bearer, Unfolding the Holy Flag, 1876, Haggin Museum
Chariot Race, 1876, Art Institute of Chicago
The Wailing Wall, 1880, Israel Museum
Arnaut Blowing Smoke in His Dog's Nose, 1882, private collection
The Tulip Folly, 1882, Walters Art Museum
The Grief of the Pasha, 1882, Joslyn Art Museum
The Saddle Bazaar, Cairo, 1883, Haggin Museum
The Two Majesties, 1883, Milwaukee Art Museum
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, aka Œdipe, 1886, Hearst Castle
The Carpet Merchant, c. 1887, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Tiger on the Watch, c. 1888, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
tLa Danse Pyrrhique, c. 1890, private collection
The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam insufflat pictura (painting breathes life into sculpture), 1893, Art Gallery of Ontario
Tanagra Workshop, 1893, private collection
Hoop Dancer, c. 1890, Haggin Museum, seen in his painting The Artist and His Model
Sarah Bernhardt, marble, c. 1895, Musée d'Orsay
Bonaparte Entering Cairo, 1897
Entry of the Christ at Jerusalem, 1897, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
The Story of Anacreon 1: Cupid at the Door in a Rainstorm, c. 1899, private collection
The Story of Anacreon 2: Young Love's Shivering Limbs the Embers Warm, c. 1899, private collection
The Story of Anacreon 4: The Poet Dreams of Cupid by the Fire, c. 1899, private collection
Souvenir of Achéres, 1903, Columbus Museum of Art
Jean-Léon Gérôme, self-portrait c. 1844, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University
Eugène Giraud, caricature of Gérôme, between 1858 and 1870
Robert Jefferson Bingham, portrait of Gérôme, between 1860 and 1875
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Bust of Jean-Léon Gérôme, after 1871, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Jules-Clément Chaplain, Jean-Léon Gérôme medal, 1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Self-portrait, 1886, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Fernand Cormon, The Sculptor at Work, 1891, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm, Gérome painting a hoop dancer, 1897, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
Aimé Morot, bronze head of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1909, Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul

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