Napoléon entrant au Caire (c.1900)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon entrant au Caire (Napoleon Entering Cairo) c.1900 Gilt bronze, 38.1 × 43.2 cm (without base) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Cairo (Egypt) | Napoléon I (1769-1821)

Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (1878)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid) modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Bronze, 72.4 × 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale…

Anacreon

(c.582 BC-c.488 BC) Ἀνακρέων Works: • Anakreons sånger (Swedish) • Lauluja Anakreonilta (Finnish) • Odes d’Anacréon (French) Anacreon in Art: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago   Born c.582 BC Teos…

Course de chariots (1876)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Course de chariots (Chariot Race) 1876 Oil on cradled panel, 86.3 × 156 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean-Léon Gérôme claimed that he based this almost cinematic depiction of a chariot race at the Circus Maximus stadium in…

Portrait de femme (1851)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1851 Oil on canvas, 92.6 × 73.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Aigle expirant (c.1900)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Aigle expirant (Eagle Expiring, Monument for Waterloo) modeled c.1900 (cast after 1902) Gilt bronze, 68.6 × 71.1 × 43.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) L’aigle expirant de Waterloo c.1902 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston    

L’aigle expirant de Waterloo (c.1902)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) L’aigle expirant de Waterloo (The Expiring Eagle of Waterloo) c.1902 Gilt bronze mounted on worked granite, 69.2 × 66 × 43.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Compare: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Aigle expirant modeled c.1900 (cast after 1902) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago…

Jean-Léon Gérôme

(1824–1904) The artist’s works: Portrait de femme 1851 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Étude des palmiers 1855–1856 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York César mort c.1859 National Gallery of Art, Washington Les Joueurs de dames 1859 Wallace Collection, London Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore…