Jean-Léon Gérôme

(1824–1904) fransk konstnär

Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a sculptor, and a printmaker. By year of birth, Jean-Léon Gérôme belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jean-Léon Gérôme was born in Vesoul and died in 9th arrondissement of Paris. Jean-Léon Gérôme trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and College Gérôme. The teachers included Paul Delaroche and Charles Gleyre. Jean-Léon Gérôme worked in Paris, Algeria, Greece, and Florence. Wikidata associates Jean-Léon Gérôme with academic art, Neo-Grec, and Orientalism. Jean-Léon Gérôme became a member of Académie des beaux-arts, Ligue de la Patrie Française‏, and Royal Academy of Arts. The awards include Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Red Eagle, and Knight of the Order of Leopold. The students included Vasily Vereshchagin, Odilon Redon, Mary Cassatt, and Léon Bakst.

The best-known works include ‘The Slave Market’, ‘Pollice Verso’, ‘Phryne before the Areopagus’, and ‘Truth Coming Out of Her Well’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting and religious painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Jean-Léon Gérôme with free images. The dated works span the years 1843–1916. Works by Jean-Léon Gérôme are held by several collections, among them Musea Brugge, Walters Art Museum, musée Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links 74 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Vilhelm Melbye, Auguste Bonheur, Adolphe Monticelli, and Gustave Boulanger.