Artist: Jean Leon Gerome Painting: The Christian Martyrs Last Prayer Introduction: 1883 Catalogue #313
87.9 x 150.1 cm (34.5 x 50 inches)
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
A Japanese Imploring a Divinity Painting ID:: 1403
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.
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