Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Étude des palmiers (Study of Palm Trees) 1855–1856 Oil on canvas, laid down on board, 26.7 × 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this study during his first trip to Egypt in 1855–56. The same…
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…
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) 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…
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)
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)
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…
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…
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