Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

Our very large gilt bronze figure by Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) depicts Venus holding and leaning upon a Dionysian staff with pine cone finial as Cupid clambers up the staff. Based marked JL GEROME.

Beautiful bronze sculpture titled "Bathsheba at her Bath" depicting a nude woman standing gracefully on a green onyx base, bathing delicately poised with a little sponge in hand, gen...

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 - 1904) 'La Joueuse de Boules' or ‘The Ball Player’ Gilt-bronze Signed 'J.L. Gerome' to the base and numbered '941G'. ...

Figure is a drawing realized by Jean-Léon Gérome (1824-1904). Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x55 cm). Stamp signed on the back of the little paper. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living...

Composition is a drawing ealized by Jean-Léon Gérome (1824-1904). Good condition on a yellowed pper, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x55 cm). Stamp signed on the back of the little paper. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist...

This painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme entitled La Danse pyrrhique is among the most fascinating compositions ever composed by the Academic master’s hand. Gérôme’s iconic scenes of the East captivated a generation, and this work showcases all of the artist’s unparalleled talents. Set in the Ptolemaic period of Ancient Egypt, its depiction of the ritual Pyrrhic dance is vivid and striking. Beautifully painted and rich with detail, it represents the best of Gérôme’s famed Orientalist scenes. In La Danse pyrrhique, Gérôme gives us a dramatic rendering of this ancient war dance. Greek in origin, it was performed by costumed dancers armed with swords who completed a series of movements set to music pantomiming combat. Homer wrote that Achilles performed this dance in a show of respect and grief at the funeral of his friend, Patroclus. When Julius Caesar introduced it to the Roman Games, its popularity spread across the Roman Empire to include Egypt, where Gérôme’s composition is set. Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time in 1856, and he returned throughout the late 19th century when this work was created. Gérôme’s first-hand familiarity with this setting is evident in this piece, and his visual narrative is unlike any other. His paintings combine the rationalist style of historical paintings and the theatrical...

An exceptionally composed hammam scene comes alive in this composition by the master of the genre, Jean-Léon Gérôme. The splendid evocation of ladies lounging around the bath is offset by the steely gaze of Gérôme's primary subject, the white eunuch. Brilliantly conceived, the oil on canvas brings together Gérôme’s aptitude for narrative painting with his incomparable mastery of the highly finished Academic style. Among the most famous of Gérôme's bath scenes is his 1886 The Terrace of the Seraglio, which was sold at a 1998 Christie's auction for $1.3 million. The present composition offers another perspective on this same scene. It includes identical architectural elements — the striped arches, the domed roof, the fountain at the center of the bath — as well as the same models, one posed on the pool's edge while two others splash in the bath itself. Rather than the bathers, however, Gérôme has chosen to focus on an altogether more serious figure in this work. The figure of the eunuch — the only male allowed into a female bath — stands...

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) ‘Femme en priere’ Red crayon on paper Dedicated and signed ‘A Monsieur Mounot / JL. Gérôme’ 10.3/4 x 7.7/8 in. (27.3 x 20 cm.) Jean-Léon Gérôme ...

Etching, 1865-68, Image Dim: cm 12.5x10, Dim: cm 26.5x18, Passepartput Dim: cm 41 x 34 Original Etching, representing an Egyptian Smoker, created between 1865 and 1868. On laid pape...

Interesting pencil drawing by J.-L. Gérome. Good conditions except some minor folds on bottom of work. Prov.: Galerie du Rhône, Switzerland. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Unde...

Late 19th century French academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme was best known in his lifetime for his paintings, but he achieved excellence in his sculptural work too, as evidenced in thi...

This fine, lustrous sculpted figure is by Jean-Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904), the widely celebrated Academic French painter of the 19th century, who began to create sculptural work...