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Jean Leon Gerome
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1860_
Catalogue_#120
75_x_99_cm_(29.5_x_40_inches)
The_Walters_Art_Gallery,_Baltimore
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Catalogue #120
75 x 99 cm (29.5 x 40 inches)
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore |
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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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