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Jean Leon Gerome
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L'Eminence_Grise
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1873_.
Catalogue_#233
65_x_98.5_cm_(23.75_x_38.75_in.)
Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Boston
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Catalogue #233
65 x 98.5 cm (23.75 x 38.75 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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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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