Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904)
Le marchand de tapis (The Carpet Merchant)
c.1887
Oil on canvas, 86.04 x 68.74 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Schooled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and honored by the French Salon, Jean-Léon Gérôme was a prolific and popular artist. Like Delacroix, he traveled extensively in North Africa and the Middle East. The Carpet Merchant depicts the Court of the Rug Market in Cairo, which Gérôme had visited in 1885. (MIA)