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Jean Leon Gerome
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Prayer_on_the_Rooftops_of_Cairo
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1865_
Catalogue_#152
49.9_x_81.2_cm_(19.5_x_32_inches)
Hamburger_Kunsthalle,_Hamburg
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Prayer on the Rooftops of Cairo
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Catalogue #152
49.9 x 81.2 cm (19.5 x 32 inches)
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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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