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Jean Leon Gerome
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1866_.
Catalogue_#162
84.8_x_63.5_cm_(33.25_x_25_inches)
The_Hermitage,_St.Petersburg
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1866 .
Catalogue #162
84.8 x 63.5 cm (33.25 x 25 inches)
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg |
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French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
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