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)
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...
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...
Bronze
César franchissant le Rubicon
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in PARIS, FR
"Caesar crossing the Rubicon" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Bronze with triple patina, gilded, brown and dark brown Cast by SIOT France circa 1900 height 38 cm length of the bas...
Bronze
$4,513Sale Price|20% Off
Hoop Player
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in PARIS, FR
Hoop Player by Jean-Léon GEROME (1824-1904) Bronze with gilded patina Signed on the base " JL.GEROME " Cast by " Siot-Decauville Fondeur Paris " (with the foundry stamp) Presented o...
Bronze
$35,000
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
Bronze
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. ...
Bronze
$9,696
H 33.08 in W 7.88 in D 7.88 in
Seifert, Victor Heinrich. 1870 Wien - 1953 Berlin “Young athlete with slingshot”
Located in Berlin, DE
Seifert, Victor Heinrich. 1870 Vienna - 1953 Berlin "Young Athlete with Slingshot" "David" Large bronze, dark patinated, signed: Prof. V.H. Seifert Height: 71.5 cm, approx. 85 cm h...
Bronze
$4,936
H 24.02 in W 7.09 in D 4.53 in
Mother Happiness / - The ecstasy of maternal joy -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Boese (1856 Ostrog - 1917 Berlin), Mutterglück, um 1910. Goldbraun patinierte Bronze auf gegossener rechteckiger Plinthe, montiert auf zweifarbigem Marmorsockel (9,5 cm Höhe...
Bronze
$763
H 11.82 in W 7.88 in D 5.52 in
Bust of a young woman / - The Opulence of Beauty -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Nelson (i.e. Antoine Joseph van den Kerckhoven) (1849 Brussels - after 1910 ibid.), Bust of a young woman, c. 1890. Patinated bronze on cast base, 30 cm (total height) x 20 cm ...
Bronze
$11,165
H 13 in W 25.6 in D 13 in
Art Nouveau Italian Signed Dated and Inscribed Original Bronze
By Constantino Barbella
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Art Nouveau "Ebrezza" bronze sculpture of a woman lying on a bed of roses. It bears at the base the signature Barbella and the wording “Rome Palm Sunday 31 III 1912” Brand...
Bronze
Agathon Leonard Silvered Bronze Of Marguerite
By Agathon Léonard
Located in Dallas, TX
Agathon Leonard (French, 1841 - 1923) Art Nouveau Silvered Bronze A French Art Nouveau gilt bronze sculpture, "Marguerite", by Agathon Léonard of Margeruite, placing a flower in her...
Bronze
$1,187Sale Price|50% Off
H 10.25 in W 9.25 in D 9.5 in
Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster, France circa 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster France, circa 1900 10 1/4 x 9 1/2 (H x D) inches A very fine and lively bronze statuette of a preening Rooster. Nicely cast and well-carved and in ex...
Silver, Bronze
$2,800
H 11 in W 16 in D 10.5 in
Antique French 19th Bronze Equestrian Group Horses Jockeys Statue Sculpture 1895
Located in Portland, OR
A fine late 19th century antique French bronze sculpture group, of a pair of race horses & jockeys, by Paul Louis Emile Loiseau-Rousseau, Paris (1861-1927). The bronze circa 1895 de...
Bronze
$880Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.42 in W 3.55 in D 3.94 in
Art Nouveau sculpture “Woman blowing bubbles”, Bronze and marble, Germany
Located in Valladolid, ES
Gorgeous Sculpture “Woman blowing bubbles”, Bronze and marble, Art Nouveau, 1920 – Germany Refined antique solid bronze sculpture depicting a woman blowing bubbles. This piece is of...
Marble, Bronze
$2,350
H 12 in Dm 4 in
David Hostetler Bronze Sculpture Figurative Green Full FigureSmall By Commission
By David Hostetler
Located in Nantucket, MA
The Classic Lady bronze was cast from a wood carving. She is David's most petite sculpture. Movement and grace with the twist at the waist and tilt of the head. She can add beauty to...
Bronze
$2,520Sale Price|60% Off
H 5.88 in W 9 in D 3.75 in
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" circa 1905
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" French School (possibly Franck Burty Haviland) Lost wax bronze casting Circa 1910 5 7/8 x 9 x 3 1/4 A sophisticated bronze casting of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel made in lost wax casting (cire perdue) from the beginning of the 20th century by Valsuani Foundry. This an unusual bronze approached in its aesthetic that’s reminiscent of the work of great animal sculptors of the second half of the 19th century except in this presentation which is more avant-garde for the time with a much looser, more impressionistic execution. The patina is a superb bronze color, brown and slightly greenish, going in places towards a more antique green. The attitude of the dog is extremely well and sensitively rendered with the placement of material unlike the renderings of a bronze by Barye...
Bronze
$1,695
H 10 in W 5 in D 4.5 in
Antique French Egyptian Revival Bronze Bust Sculpture Statue "Queen of Babylon"
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique cast bronze sculpture an Egyptian Revival bust "The Queen of Babylon", by the 19th century French sculptor Paul Auguste Gagne, circa 1875. This rare & unusual bronze b...
Bronze
$2,295
H 9.5 in W 9.5 in D 7 in
Antique 19th Century French Bonze Animalier Brown Bear Statue Sculpture Paris
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique bronze sculpture of a brown bear by the celebrated French Animalier sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye, circa 1870. The bronze depicts a brown bear in a dynamic pose, head h...
Marble, Bronze