Jean Leon Gerome
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The Arab and his Steed
Painting ID:: 1445 Jean Leon Gerome43.jpg
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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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The Arab and his Steed |
1872
Catalogue #220
59.7 x 99 cm (23.5 x 39in.)
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Related Paintings::. | Detail of Madonna of the Rocks | A View of Park Place (mk25) | Die Musikstunde | |
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