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…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Femme au balcon (Woman at a Balcony) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 50.2 × 41.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Seen from below as if from street level and posed seductively in a revealing costume, this woman is…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1874 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this scene, which depicts the interior of the seventh-century mosque of ‘Amr in Cairo, after…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Café Maison, Le Caire; la coulée balles (Cafe House, Cairo; Casting Bullets) 1884 or earlier Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 62.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York While two mercenaries cast bullets and a third, seated behind them,…
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)
(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…
Director: Woody Allen Producer: Robert Greenhut Screenplay: Woody Allen Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romantic Music: Dick Hyman Country: United States Language: English Studio: Orion Pictures Release date: 1985 Running time: 82 minutes Mia Farrow (1945) as Cecilia Jeff Daniels (1955) as Tom…
Cairo in Art: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée 1874 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Café Maison, Le Caire 1884 or earlier Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Femme au balcon 1887–1888 Metropolitan Museum…
(1932–2015) Michel Dimitri Chalhoub Filmography as Actor: Doctor Zhivago 1965 Director: David Lean Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie Les possédés 1988 Director: Andrzej Wajda Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Bernard Blier Born April 10 1932 Alexandria (Egypt) Died July 10 2015 Cairo…
(1769–1821) First Consul of the French Republic (1799–1804) Emperor of the French (1804–1815) President of the Italian Republic (1802–1805) King of Italy (1805–1814) Napoléon in Literature: • Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): The Man of Destiny (1898) Napoléon in Art: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Busto di Napoleone c.1802…