|
|
|
|
|
Jean Leon Gerome
|
|
Woman_of_Cairo_at_her_Door
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click to Enlarge
|
| Jean_Leon_Gerome
|
Woman of Cairo at her Door
Jean Leon Gerome21.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1897
Catalogue #442
82 x 67 cm (32.25 x 26.25 inches)
University Art Collection, Syracuse,
New York |
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
