Artist: Jean Leon Gerome Painting: Plaza de Toros : The Entry of the Bull Introduction: 1886
Catalogue #338
45.7 x 76.2 cm (18 x 30 inches)
Private collection
Artist: Jean Leon Gerome Painting: The Carpet Merchant Introduction: 1887 .
Catalogue #349
83.5 x 64.7 cm (33 x 25.5 inches)
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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.
. Related Artists to Jean Leon Gerome : | Arnold Houbraken | Henrique Pousao | Samuel Hieronymous Grimm | George Robert Lewis | Alfred de Dreux |