Jean Leon Gerome
French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
Related Paintings of Jean Leon Gerome :. | Heads of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque of El Hasanein | Unfolding the Holy Flag | Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia | Young Greeks at the Mosque | Portrait of a Cactus Collector | Related Artists: BRUEGHEL, Jan the ElderFlemish painter (bc1568, Bruxelles, d. 1625, Antwerpen). AlexanderFlemish painter (1587-1661) Sergei SvetoslavskyRussia,1869-1938
|
|
|