Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Phryné devant l’aréopage (Phryné before the Areopagus) 1861 Oil on canvas, 80 x 128 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Compare: Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout 1860–1861 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and…
Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout (Standing Female Nude) 1860–1861 Salted paper print from glass negative, 20.2 x 13.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and left-wing politicians, Nadar is known to have photographed only…
(1820–1910) Gaspard-Félix Tournachon The artist’s works: Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Corot 1855–1859 Getty Center, Los Angeles Pierrot riant 1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gioachino Rossini 1856 Private collection Honoré…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) La dernière prière des martyrs chrétiens (The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer) 1883 Oil on canvas, 87.9 x 150.1 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore William T. Walters commissioned this painting in 1863, but the artist did not deliver it until…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène (Diogenes) 1860 Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 101 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Athens (Greece) | Diogenes (c.404 BC-c.323 BC)
(c.404 BC-c.323 BC) Diogenes the Cynic Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός Diogenes in Art: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Born c.404 BC Sinope (Turkey) Died c.323 BC Corinth (Greece) Occupation Philosopher
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Sarah Bernhardt c.1895 Tinted marble, 69 x 41 x 29 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Jérusalem (Jerusalem) 1867 Oil on canvas, 82 x 144.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Jerusalem (Israel)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Tigresse et ses petits (Tiger and Cubs) c.1884 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 91.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme attributed the success of his animal paintings to his early studies at the menagerie of the…
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…