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Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

French, 1824-1904

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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Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme La Danseuse au Cerceau - Gilt Bronze Statue of a Hoop Dancer
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Léon Gérôme French 1824 - 1904 La Joueuse De Cerceau - The Hoop Dancer A mini gilt bronze female figural statue of a young hoop dancer inspired by a trove of ancient terraco...
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19th Century Academic Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Bronze

Apple Dancer
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in PARIS, FR
Apple Dancer by Jean-Léon GEROME (1824-1904) Bronze sculpture with a dual patina, brown and gilded signed on the base "JL. GEROME" cast by "Siot-Decauville Fondeur Paris" (foundry s...
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1890s Art Nouveau Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Bronze

Cheval Pur-Sang
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in Paris, FR
JeanLéon GEROME (1824-1904) Cheval Pur-Sang Bronze with brown patina Numbered P 314 Signed “GEROME” on the front of the terrace and stamp of the founde...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Bronze

"Afternoon Along the Nile"
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Jean Leon Gerome Plaudite Cives Bronze sculpture
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in Dallas, TX
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) FRENCH BELLUAIRE OR PLAUDITE CIVES. This sculpture shows the scene of a Roman coliseum where a gladiator just finished his battle with a large lion. ...
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Early 1900s Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Bronze

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) A Rare Gilt bronze Bust of Jesus
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) A Rare Antique gilt bronze bust of Jesus French Signed J.L. Gerome  Siot-Decauville Paris foundry mark 23”H x 16"W x 10" D
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19th Century Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Landscape - Etching by Jean-Léon Gérome - 19th Century
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized 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...
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19th Century Modern Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Pencil

Entrance of General Bonaparte in Cairo, 1798
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Léon Gérôme, (1824-1904) "Entrance of General Bonaparte in Cairo, 1798" Bronze with medal patina Signed on the base “GEROME” and on the back part “SIOT Fondeur Paris” Dimensi...
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19th Century Academic Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Bronze

La Danse pyrrhique (Pyrrhic Dance)
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
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19th Century Academic Jean-Léon Gérôme Art

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Canvas, Oil

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