Jean-Léon GérômeCheval Pur-Sang1883
1883
About the Item
- Creator:Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904, French)
- Creation Year:1883
- Dimensions:Height: 12.41 in (31.5 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:Seller: 60981stDibs: LU68734528502
Jean-Léon Gérôme
One of the most prominent French Academic painters of the 19th century, Jean-Léon Gérôme is today credited with fashioning an entirely new artistic ideology. One of the originators of the Orientalist style, Gérôme was also a stalwart defender of Academic painting, which was waning under the rise of realism and Impressionism. Inspired by the year he spent in Rome with Paul Delaroche in 1834, he developed an insatiable appetite for traveling, and throughout his career, he traveled widely in Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa. His years exploring the Near East inspired his greatest Orientalist works, his Moorish and Turkish bath scenes.
A sculptor as well as a painter, Gérôme’s female figures have the same classical precision of Ingres but are executed with a more pronounced sensuality and realism. Enjoying great popularity and success during his lifetime, he was actively courted and patronized by private collectors and nobility. Today, the majority of Gérôme's works are held in major museums, with very few remaining in private hands.
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(Biography provided by M.S. Rau)
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