Pollice verso

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872, Phoenix Art Museum

‘Pollice verso’ is a work by Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904). It is dated 1872. It is part of the collection Phoenix Art Museum. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It is 97 cm high. The work belongs to the genre history painting. The things depicted include gladiator, arma de ponce, Vestal Virgin, and crowd.