|
Jean Leon Gerome
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Colossi of Thebes Memnon and Sesostris
Painting ID:: 40075
new12/Jean Leon Gerome-243525.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
The Colossi of Thebes Memnon and Sesostris |
|
mk155
1857
Oil on canvas
76x131cm
|
|
Related Paintings::.
| Chill October | Martyrdom of St John Nepomuk | Hunter in the Meadows of Old Newburyport, Massachusetts | |
|
|
|
