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Jean Leon Gerome
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Unfolding the Holy Flag
Painting ID:: 1406
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Jean Leon Gerome
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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.
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Unfolding the Holy Flag |
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1876 Catalogue #252
60.3 x 48.6 cm (23.75 x 19 inches) The Haggin Museum, Stockton |
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Related Paintings::.
| Letters of women | Crossing the Styx | The Supper at Emmaus | |
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