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Jérusalem (1867)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Jérusalem (Jerusalem) 1867 Oil on canvas, 82 x 144.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Jerusalem (Israel)

Tigresse et ses petits (c.1884)

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…

Femme au balcon (1887-1888)

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…

Pygmalion et Galatée (c.1890)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Pygmalion et Galatée (Pygmalion and Galatea) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1890 and 1892, Gérôme made both painted and sculpted variations on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea, the…

Prière à la mosquée (1871)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1871 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…

Café Maison, Le Caire (1884)

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,…

Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (c.1868-1870)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (View of Medinet El-Fayoum) c.1868–1870 Oil on wood, 38 x 56 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of…

César mort (c.1859)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) César mort (The Dead Caesar) c.1859 Graphite on wove paper, 16.7 x 32.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Julius Caesar, Gaius (100 BC-44 BC)

La Rue de la Bavole à Honfleur (1864)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Rue de la Bavole à Honfleur 1864 Oil on canvas, 58 x 63 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rue de la Bavole, Honfleur c.1864 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     See also: • Honfleur (France)